Same penalty as at first instance for the same behavior. Mee Yun, a 50-year-old Malaysian woman, was sentenced this Wednesday evening to 13 years of imprisonment for torture and barbaric acts on a minor under 15 years old by ascendant. During this appeal trial in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), she continued to deny the facts explaining them by domestic accidents. For six years, this mother abused Angus, her son. This second trial went faster than expected. “It should normally end this Thursday but there were a lot of absentees. Witnesses who appeared in the proceedings are in Malaysia, ”recounts Chloé Arnoux, Mee Yun's lawyer.
The facts were revealed on December 12, 2017. Angus, then aged 11, presented himself at the reception of the Adagio hotel, rue du Théâtre, in Paris (15th arrondissement).
He says he is part of a Malaysian troupe of professional ballroom dancers visiting Paris, and says his mother would like to burn him because he "forgot some dance steps".
Entrusted to Social Assistance for Children
On his arms he shows his scars.
He has numerous burns all over his body, some of them in the third degree, and signs of beatings.
The child explains to the investigators of the brigade for the protection of minors that his mother began to inflict this kind of abuse on him as soon as he started dancing, at the age of 5.
A first forensic examination revealed, all over the child's body, multiple scars and stigmata linked to blows with a contending weapon, "of the whip type".
This violence remained in the family intimacy since no one in the entourage of the boy and his mother noticed these traces.
Mum made Angus dress in loose clothing covering her bruised young body and appeared loving in public.
After the fact, Angus was taken to Child Welfare.
He now lives with his father in Malaysia.
Mee Yun, she experiences a complicated detention.
Her lawyer explained at the hearing that she had been following an addictology group for a year and a half when she had never been addicted to anything ... But not speaking French, she did not realize of the theme of the workshop.
