Reading the guilty verdict, presiding judge Emmanuelle Adoul told Daubon: “Luan’s life was saved due to your arrest”.
Prosecutors argued that Daubon was a liar and a manipulator who had been drugging her daughter into a submissive state since early 2018, after an acrimonious divorce almost a decade earlier from her children’s father, Yannick Reverdy, a former national handball player.
Police found the heart drug, also used to reduce anxiety, hidden in suppositories in the mother’s room and in a dresser in the living room.
The younger sibling, now aged 22, defended her mother at the trial in the southwestern town of Mont-de-Marsan, saying she was not guilty.
She said she had had a happy childhood, even if it was complicated by her parents divorcing after her mother accused her father of physical abuse.
Daubon and Reverdy divorced in 2009.
A co-detainee during the trial accused Daubon of trying to seek her ex-husband’s murder from behind bars, allegations the defendant dismissed as “prison gossip”.
The defence argued that Daubon was innocent and that her eldest daughter was known to have suffered from “severe and chronic psychiatric disorders”.
- Agence France-Presse
