French mother jailed for leaving child alone for two years WIW
A French mother was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for abandoning her 9-year-old child, CNN’s BFMTV reported.
BFMTV reported that the boy was left to live alone in the family’s apartment in the town of Nersac in the Charente region for two years, from 2020 to 2022, and appeared to live on cake, canned goods and stolen tomatoes.
According to BFMTV, the child’s mother lived with her partner in another apartment five kilometers away and visited the child only “occasionally”.
Nersac Mayor Barbara Couturier said the child often did not have hot water or heating, according to BFMTV. However, he continued to attend school during this period and was a good student, Couturier also noted.
Couturier said he notified local and state police about the situation after the mother asked social services to help buy food.
“I met his mother in May 2022. She came to tell us that she had financial problems and we gave her four food stamps, but she took prepared food instead, which made me suspicious. Some residents said it was a child. living alone, so I combined the two things and called the local police and the state police,” Couturier explained.
Couturier announced that the child will be in social care from 19.09.2022.
