Moroccan Woman Sentenced to 5 Years for Newborn’s Death in Casablanca

According to Aujourd’hui le Maroc, the 23-year-old girl had worked as a maid in several families in Casablanca, before the nightlife drew her into the worst excesses.

Temptations and debauchery had left her no chance, moving from alcohol to prostitution, with a disconcerting ease. Falling pregnant, she finds herself, after nine months, confronted with a bitter reality.

She gives birth on the street and decides to get rid of the newborn immediately, by suffocating it. She was reported by a night watchman, who alerted the police.

"I didn’t know what to do, Mr. President," she said before the three judges of the Court. The medical expertise requested by the lawyer during the pleadings was not accepted.