A 24-year-old man and his 21-year-old girlfriend were indicted and remanded in custody for acts of torture and barbarity on their four-year-old child, the Bourges prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday.
After feeling unwell at the primary school in which he is educated, the child was hospitalized on Monday January 17 at the Bourges hospital center. By examining him, the medical examiner at the hospital then discovered “traumatic lesions”, “bruises on the limbs and in the back”, as well as a “wound on the scalp”.
The hospital immediately alerted the Saint-Amand-Montrond gendarmerie, which immediately opened an investigation, according to france blue. The mother of the child, aged 21, and her companion, aged 24, were quickly arrested.
Repeated physical punishments
The child’s mother and stepfather admitted to having “locked up the child 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 in a press release.
The four-and-a-half-year-old boy 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.
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In “a state of very great thinness”, he was entrusted to the services of the Childhood Social Assistance, as well as his one-year-old sister, “who seems not to have suffered any violence”, according to the prosecution.
The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmerie of Saint-Amand-Montrond (Cher), 40 km south of Bourges, further indicated the prosecution, which opened a judicial investigation for “deprivation of care or food”, “violence against a minor” and “torture or act of barbarity against a minor”.
The mother and her companion face a 30-year prison sentence in view of the offenses with which they are accused.
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