The nightmare began ten years ago for Vanessa and Eric. She is a nurse. He is a salesman. The couple lived in the Sarreguemines sector before separating. A separation without psychodrama. Rather amicably. But everything exploded on December 4, 2011. Returning from a weekend with his father in Nancy, the 4-year-old son of the couple confided to his mother that he had suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his half-brother. 11 years old.
“It was a tsunami”
“When my son freed his word, it was a tsunami for me,” says Vanessa. She went to the nearest police station. But the police initially refused to take his complaint. Then she took it but the investigators never proceeded to a filmed interview of the child, as is usually done in this kind of case. “The case started very badly. He was not taken seriously at all, ”denounces the mother’s lawyer, Me Monique Sultan. The file was dismissed twice …
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