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In France, the Parquet de Bourges detained a young woman. With her companion, she abused her young son, chaining him to his bed or depriving him of water and food.
The police opened an investigation for “deprivation of care or food”, “violence once morest a minor” and “torture or act of barbarity once morest a minor”. The mother and her companion incur a penalty of prison 30 years old.
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A 21-year-old mother and her 24-year-old companion were indicted and remanded in custody for acts of torture and barbarity on their 4-year-old child, the Bourges prosecutor’s office said on Saturday. The little boy’s mother and stepfather admitted having locked him up “for sometimes several days, depriving him of water and food, then having tied him by the neck to his bed, using a chain and padlock,” said public prosecutor Joël Garrigue.
The little boy, 4 and a half years old, was also subjected “to repeated acts of violence and physical punishment since September 2021”, according to the same source. The child was the victim of bullying, blows and slaps before being locked in his room, without water and without food or the possibility of going to the toilet. He was also schooled in dotted line.
Illness at school
The facts were discovered on January 17, following a malaise of the little boy at school, which led to his hospitalization at the Bourges hospital center. It was then that the medical examiner at the hospital discovered “traumatic injuries”, “bruises on the limbs and in the back”, as well as a “wound on the scalp”.
In “a state of very great thinness”, he was entrusted to the services of the Childhood Social Assistance, with his little sœur aged u1n year, “who seems not to have suffered violence”, according to the prosecution.
The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmerie of Saint-Armand-Montrond (Cher), 40 km south of Bourges, further indicated the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which opened a judicial investigation for “deprivation of care or food”, “violence once morest a minor” and “torture or act of barbarism once morest a minor”. The mother and her companion face a prison sentence of 30 years, in view of the offenses with which they are accused.
(AFP)