The scene must have made the police who arrived on the scene shudder.
A couple from Noyelles-sous-Lens (Pas-de-Calais) will be tried in January, suspected of violence and educational deficiencies, after the discovery on Tuesday by the police of two of their ten children tied to high chairs, in a situation of “deplorable hygiene”, let the prosecution know this Sunday.
The family situation was denounced by one of the eldest siblings, and the prosecution was notified on August 30 by a report from Childhood Social Assistance (ASE), indicates the public prosecutor of Béthune, Thierry Dran, confirming information from La Voix du Nord.
When the police intervened, they "found that two children aged two and five" were "attached to high chairs, so that they would not move", and in a "deplorable state of hygiene", a- he continued.
“Serious educational deficiencies”
However "we cannot say" that they were covered with excrement, as reported by some media, he said.
The parents, a 44-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, are suspected of "subtraction by ascendant from legal obligations" and "violence of a 15-year-old minor by ascendant", without ITT (total incapacity for work).
"What is reproached is above all the total lack of hygiene, and serious educational deficiencies", or "the fact of not having taken care of his children in a normal way", specified the prosecutor.
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The children, however, show "no signs of serious abuse that would have caused scarring", he added.
The family has a total of ten children aged 4 months to 24 years, including seven minors, and "the facts are alleged on all the minors and one of the adults", potential facts on the two eldest being prescribed.
The seven minors were the subject of a temporary placement order.
Placed in police custody on August 31, the parents were brought before a judge and placed under judicial supervision, with a ban on contact with their children, and obligations of care.
They will be tried on January 24.
Following this affair, Charlotte Caubel, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, responsible for children, announced Sunday evening that she would be going to Pas-de-Calais on Monday to meet "with local child protection actors, and “take stock of the identification and management of this situation” or “the protection of all children in the department”.