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Domestic violence: the ordeal of a mother martyred for years

2021-01-22T12:46:51.404Z


The Ille-et-Vilaine Assize Court on Thursday sentenced the spouse of a mother to 16 years' imprisonment for extremely serious facts which


One day in July 2017, a disfigured young woman opens the window of her bathroom where she has been locked up for 4 days.

She calls for help and this cry will save her.

A passer-by warns the emergency services who invest the apartment.

They discover three children in a state of repulsive filth, like their mother, who has not been able to wash for several weeks.

Taken to hospital, the mother is described by doctors as "a giant contusion, a living wound".

Thursday January 21, the Assize Court of Ille-et-Vilaine sentenced the thirty-something responsible for these abuses to 16 years of criminal imprisonment and 5 years of socio-judicial follow-up for usual violence, torture and acts of barbarism and the kidnapping of his partner, in Vitré near Rennes, between January 2015 and July 15, 2017.

"They were alone and were abandoned"

For years, violence had set in.

In 2009, when she was pregnant with her first boy, the young woman arrived in the emergency room with a broken arm.

In 2010, her husband was sentenced to 8 months in prison for violence against his partner.

During her third pregnancy, doctors found old bruises and fractures.

Over the years, the gendarmes will come several times, there will be separations, but the couple always get back together.

The neighbors of the social housing in Vitré no longer paid attention to the cries, nor were they aware of the presence of the youngest who had left the apartment only 5 times in two years.

"They were alone and were abandoned," said the lawyer for the accused, Me Emmanuelle Cruzillac.

Everyone knew what was going on in this family but nobody did anything, ”she adds.

"What would have happened without this passerby?"

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Sequestered for weeks in the bathroom

Life in the apartment is torture.

On his spouse, the accused will rain kicks and punches.

He hits her with the bars of the children's bed, whips her, drops dumbbells on her hands, breaks her fingers.

All violence takes place in the bathroom “so that the children cannot see”.

It is there that she is sequestered before her deliverance.

She has been sleeping in the tub for weeks, deprived of food, and must ask for permission to eat.

During the day, a cross on the ground indicates to her where she should stand.

The life of the accused, who claims to regret, is spent in front of the jurors.

This child from the Tarterêts district in Corbeil-Essonnes had a childhood “that we do not wish on anyone”, underlines the Advocate General in his indictment.

His mother, who raises him alone, is abusive and violent.

He was placed in child welfare at the age of 8 months and then stayed with a loving foster family until he was eight years old.

Forced to return to his mother's house, she prevents him from going out except for school and beats him regularly.

There is no longer any social monitoring.

However, it is an “archaic jealousy” that will make him take action.

There are “movies being made” fueled by heavy cannabis use.

He constantly thinks that his partner is secretly seeing men.

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The three severely traumatized children were taken into care when their father was arrested.

They joined their mother in the Paris region last August, with the help of educational assistance.

“My client is now in the process of rebuilding herself,” explains her lawyer, Me Elodie Praud.

She found a job and an apartment.

She is also rebuilding her body.

She is still waiting for facial and ear surgery ”.

Children slowly relearn how to live "despite the incredible psychological violence they have suffered".

Their father, whose parental authority has been withdrawn, will no longer be able to act in their life.

Source: leparis

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