This Monday, February 15, the public prosecutor decided to appeal the decision of the Marne Assize Court in the case of the death of little Tony, said the Reims general prosecutor's office in
Figaro
.
On February 5, at the end of five days of hearing, the stepfather of the boy Loïc V. was sentenced to twenty years of criminal imprisonment, the mother Caroline L. to five years in prison, one of which was suspended.
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The account of the multiple abuses suffered by Tony upset all those who attended the trial of Loïc V. and Caroline L. The three and a half year old boy died on November 26, 2016 in Reims of a ruptured spleen and pancreas consecutive to multiple strokes.
During the investigation, the child's stepfather quickly admitted that he was hitting him.
Loïc V. faced thirty years of imprisonment
Four years after Tony's death, his stepfather was on trial for "willful violence resulting in the death of a 15-year-old minor, without intention of giving it away, by a person in authority".
The Advocate General had demanded against him the maximum penalty, thirty years imprisonment;
the court finally handed down a ten-year lenient sentence.
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The mother of the little boy, who appeared free under judicial supervision, risked five years in prison for "not denouncing ill-treatment" and "failing to assist a person in danger".
The attorney general had requested five years in prison.
The judges and jurors finally handed down a slightly lower sentence, five years in prison, including one year suspended.
