“20-Year-Old Father Sentenced for Domestic Violence: A Tragic Love Story”

They have 20 years old and are parents of two boys. They met schoolboys and are found after the health crisis. In love, they quickly decided to have a child. Friday, May 5, 2023the father was at the bar of the court correctional of Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) to respond to violence.

The same morning, the couple was inside the courthouse, as the representative of the prosecution will point out: “This frail young girl came ask for protectionshe is so afraid of the father of her children, but she did not feel strong enough to attend the hearing”.

The lawyer for the civil party, Me Louis Dit Bizeau, described his client’s difficult journey: “Abandoned by her mother at the age of two, she was welcomed by her maternal grandmotherbut her father came to pick her up.”

The young woman was happy to have found “support”. But at the end, she ended up file a complaint for violence. Her grandmother and the defendant’s mother claimed to have seen her with blood in her eyes.

Me Louis Dit Bizeau summed up: “She was under the imprint, in a brainwashing … It was a little butterfly stuck in a spider’s web”. The auditor of justice then highlighted “the material and emotional vulnerability of the victim” of which the defendant only mentions two episodes of violence – at a minimum – between July 1 and October 30, 2022 – to Augan and Massérac, adding: “He does not realize the seriousness of the facts”. She further specifies: “Finding her exhausted by a especially lack of sleep “, the doctor had prescribed eight days of interruption of activity. At the helm, the young man was not very talkative.

Separated from her eldest son

The defense lawyer, Me Christine Le François, did not adhere to the “terrible portrait” made of her client: “Under the influence? However, she registered on the driver’s license and on August 9while his companion returned from a few days to Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), six months pregnant, she was in a nightclub.

Her statements varied at the beginning, she only speaks of insults, in the end, he will kill her…”. She points out that, “in the photos, you never see any traces of blows”.

After hospitalization and birth of her second boy suffering from a brain anomaly, the victim returned to live with his grandmother, but suffers from the absence of the eldest who remained with his father.

The court was more severe than the prosecution: twelve months in prison suspended against eight required. The defendant has prohibition of any contact with the mother of his children to whom he will owe pay €1,000 in non-pecuniary damage.

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