Before the he tied his hands and then set them on fire leaving her with very serious burns on her upper limbs, all just because the little one, one just six years old, she had stolen some candy from a local shop whose owner had discovered it. To make the story even more terrible is that the author of the terrible episode was the mother of the child who in this way wanted to punish her for the theft. The shocking gesture took place in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, where the child’s mother, a 37-year-old, was arrested for mistreatment together with the companion who would have seen everything without intervening to help the child.
According to the indictment, everything would have happened when the shopkeeper would have complained to the woman of the theft after discovering that the six-year-old girl and her younger sister, a four-year-old, had disappeared the candy and other sweets from her shop. The woman then tied her eldest daughter’s hands and burned them and apparently she planned to do the same thing with the youngest child, but the younger one managed to escape. “With that gesture, the mother put the lives of her daughters at risk” explained the head of the anti-violence section of the local police.
“Mom admitted that she tied straw to both girls’ arms as punishment. Then she set fire to the hands of her older sister and younger child, realizing what was happening, she managed to escape “the agent rebuilt. The six-year-old girl was seriously injured with second-degree burns to arms and hands, and is being hospitalized. The mom, released from prison because she was pregnant, said she was sorry and that she just meant to teach the girls a lesson so they wouldn’t take other people’s things.
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