Update 16 September  Yverdon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The mother of a young child who fell out of a window and died while she was out partying has been given a six month suspended sentence for negligent homicide. The state prosecutor had asked for a 10-month prison sentence plus two years suspended sentence in the trial of a  24-year-old woman who left her three-year-old daughter alone while she went out for most of the night with friends. The child died in December 2006 after falling out of a six-storey kitchen window. She had managed to pull a chair up to the window, which had been left open, and climb out, then fell to her death.

The mother discovered her lifeless body when she came in, then initially tried to hide the fact she had gone out, leaving the child alone. The woman was recently divorced and told the court it was her first time out at night with friends.

She has since had another child with a new partner.

The judge took into account her young age and lack of maturity when she had the child, as well as her remorse since, and her own earlier circumstances: she arrived in Switzerland from Macedonia shortly before giving birth to her daughter, lived with her in-laws who reportedly did not treat her well and possibly even abused her.

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