At age 3 and 4, two brothers had only cakes and Coca-Cola for their food. The alcoholic father was sentenced to three months in prison in Limoges for breach of his parental obligations. The two brothers were placed in foster care.
Two brothers, aged three and four, were mainly fed Coca-Cola by their alcoholic father. The man has just been sentenced to three months in prison in Limoges, the children's lawyer said on Wednesday (October 24th).
The oldest man has been torn out of seven teeth, gnawed by sugar and the second is now in an almost mute state, both of which will soon have to undergo psychological and medical expertise, said Me Carole Papon, representative of the association. France Victims 87.
Their father was sentenced to three months in prison by the Limoges Criminal Court for failing to meet his parental obligations between 2016 and 2018, and was described at the 19 October hearing as violent towards his wife and children.
Children left on their own
"The context, tinged with alcoholism is very particular. Dad does not know how to read, write, or count, does not realize the situation and spends all social assistance on alcohol. In a few days, the family has nothing to eat. And they have only Coke available, " said the lawyer.
"Social services have been denied , " said Deputy Prosecutor Bruno Robinet. "In the apartment there was nothing, no fridge, the children slept on a mattress without a blanket and there were no toys ... Their father fed them with cakes and Coke. They were completely left to their own devices. "
Learn what vegetables and meat are
After an alert from the social services to the public prosecutor, the two brothers were placed in foster homes. The older one "had to teach him what vegetables and meat were. The youngest brother placed in another family does not say a word, " says the lawyer.
Expertises must make it possible to quantify the damage and to know what consequences will have on the psychological level in these first years of their life.