Parents were sentenced to three years in prison, one of which was suspended, by the Draguignan correctional court (Var) for having withdrawn their child from his foster family in the summer of 2016, reports
Var-Matin.
Both parents then left for Portugal, also taking their youngest child with them. Their daughter, then 14 years old, was left alone in France, and has not seen her two brothers since.
An ongoing repatriation procedure
“Today they are alone in Portugal and it’s because of you! »She thus launched during the hearing. At the bar, the mother tried to justify her gesture. “Every time we saw him on an open visit, he would tell us that he was being abused by his host family,” she said.
Although this violence is proven, the child was living with another family at the time of his removal. Little information was then given regarding family life in Portugal before the parents’ arrest on June 8. “We do not know exactly what they lived, in what psychological and physical state are the children today …”, explained the lawyer of the civil parties. The repatriation procedure for the two children has been launched.
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