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“After four days, how can you not recognize your baby?” Sophie Chas, the lawyer for the clinic, told the newspaper Le Figaro. “We can believe in it when it’s a
by MyHypatia 12y ago
“After four days, how can you not recognize your baby?” Sophie Chas, the lawyer for the clinic, told the newspaper Le Figaro. “We can believe in it when it’s a second, a day, two days. But 10 years? The mothers may have been involved in creating the damage.”
How sad that the lawyer chose to argue that "the mothers may have been involved in creating the damage"... because they trusted the doctors? ...because they didn't possess some "maternal instinct" to recognize a baby they had spent almost no time with? Even after say 2 years or 10 years it's your fault because you didn't call the police to report that your child's skin tone doesn't match your own? How is it even acceptable to make this argument in a court?
- nraynaud 12y agoin France, when the judge is a professional (by opposition to a jury), you can use whatever arguments you want in court. But outrageous arguments are extremely risky, the lawyer might have been in a desperate position to use that.