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Trial: Kenzo, 21 months old, died from the beatings of his stepfather

2020-10-26T05:35:46.404Z


The Hérault Assize Court will judge from this Monday morning the father-in-law of this 21-month-old boy, who died in 2017 on Saint's Day.


It is the wandering and deadly drift of a couple with a young child that the jurors of the Assize Court of Hérault have to judge from this Monday and until Friday.

They will have to examine how Teddy Maton, 32 years old at the time of the facts and recent companion of the mother of the child - also sent to justice -, found himself accused of the murder of little Kenzo, 21 months old, and abuse qualified as acts of torture and barbarism.

The child died in the afternoon of February 14, 2017, in the cramped camera of a room, behind the candy pink facade of a small hotel passing through at the exit of Lunel (Hérault).

That day, the toddler cries.

According to the statements of the young mother, Angelina, then aged 19, Teddy is angry.

He grabs the child, shakes him, then gives him a series of violent knocks in the thorax at the level of the liver.

From this outburst of violence, the infant emerges lifeless.

So, lying on the bed, the firefighters called for help discovered Kenzo.

The couple invents an incredible story of aggression of the mother and the child which will last only a few minutes in the face of questions from the gendarmes.

The child, who was unable to resuscitate, died on Valentine's Day.

Traces of beatings, burns, bites

The autopsy will determine that he died of a major hemorrhage as a result of the blows to his chest.

This examination also confirms the first findings of the authorities: the body of the child, born in April 2015, is martyred, it shows traces of blows, burns, lesions and even scars from recent or old bites.

Placed in custody, the temporary mason, then in search of employment, denies the facts which directly led to the death.

It recognizes at least other older moves.

He throws the responsibility for the death of the little one on Angelina, whose life he has shared for three months in an existence of misery and wandering in the south of France.

The couple and the child have been going from small hotels to motels for weeks.

They sleep in the car as needed.

"Once again, silence reigned"

During the investigation, if Angelina Seine designated her companion, already known for acts of violence, as the sole responsible for the death of the child, the justice however held against her the counts of "complicity in torture or act of barbarism on a minor by an ascendant, non-denunciation of ill-treatment, deprivation, sexual assault or abuse, non-denunciation of a crime against a minor child ”.

This Monday morning, the young woman will therefore also be sitting on the dock.

The family circle of the young mother obviously saw nothing of the drama that was being tied, day after day, within this couple who totally escaped the radars of social services.

"Once again, silence, yes, silence reigned around this case of ultimate mistreatment", deplores the association l'Enfant Bleu which has brought a civil action.

The murderer of the little child martyr faces life imprisonment.

Source: leparis

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