Her shoulders are curled up in her hooded coat. His voice is quavering. The former home help of an octogenarian couple is crying at the bar of the Thionville criminal court. She admits to having cheated and stolen from them for several months, between October 2019 and January 2020.
Withdrawals and fraudulent payments ended up showing. The prejudice has mounted crescendo. It amounts to a total of 23,288 euros. The wife of the abused couple filed a complaint. The analysis of the bank’s surveillance cameras as well as the movements recorded on the accounts identify a woman, whom the victim will easily recognize. This is their domestic worker to whom the retirees had entrusted their credit card as well as the code to help them out.
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“I would like to get my money back, I need it”
The wife now lives alone in senior residences in Thionville, her husband died in December 2019. Aged 83, she attended the trial this Tuesday, October 5, accompanied by her nephew. She even agreed to stand up to speak. “I would like to get my money back. I need it to pay for the residence, ”she begins. “The rest, I forgive him,” she said calmly, looking at the one she was using. “It’s a shame, when she came to the house, I hugged her. It surprised me that it ended like that, ”explains the little lady, with a frail figure, short gray hair. Today his emotion is controlled. But she had to cash: “When I learned that there had been a withdrawal of money on the day of my husband’s death, I cried a lot, it’s true,” she admits.
The 43-year-old defendant, unknown to the courts until now, undertakes to return what she stole. When she got back to work because she quit when the facts came to light. “At the time, my husband was asking me for money,” she sobs. The court sentenced her to a six-month suspended prison sentence, together with a ban on personal assistance for two years. He also orders the full reimbursement of the civil party.
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