A couple of parents were indicted on April 17 after the death of their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter in La Gacilly (Morbihan).
The father is suspected of violence leading to death.
The girl and her older sister were starving and malnourished.
Social services intervened at the couple's home in November 2020, noting the deficiencies of the children.
The question of keeping the two children at home arises when the parents have just been sentenced for acts of deprivation of care.
Unfortunately, the sanction came too late.
Thursday, June 2, a couple of parents residing in Gacilly (Morbihan) saw their parental authority withdrawn after being found guilty of deprivation of care and food for their two children.
A decision that will have been too late and will not have saved their youngest daughter.
Aged a year and a half, the youngest died in April.
His parents were both charged.
If the circumstances of the tragedy remain unclear, the Lorient prosecutor's office confirmed that the father was being prosecuted "for the criminal count of willful violence resulting in the death without intention of giving it to a minor under the age of 15 by ascendant", learned
20 Minutes
with prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger.
The father, a kinesiologist based in the small town, is also being prosecuted for deprivation of care.
He was placed in pre-trial detention on April 17 by the liberty and detention judge.
The girl's mother was also charged with deprivation of care.
She was placed under judicial supervision.
A judicial investigation has been opened within the criminal center of Lorient.
The father accuses the mother of "vampirizing" the child
The circumstances of the child's death are unknown at this time.
What we do know is that the little girl was starving.
Since his birth at the end of 2020, the child had been malnourished, just like his sister, now just over 6 years old.
On Thursday, the Vannes Criminal Court sentenced the father to a twenty-four month prison sentence, the mother to a fifteen-month suspended sentence for deprivation of care.
According to
Ouest-France
, social services intervened in November 2020 at the couple's home, noting the thinness of the two girls and an "extremely worrying" state of health.
The daily evokes the "psychological influence" of the father on the mother.
During the hearing, the latter also accused his companion of “vaping the energy of this child” through breastfeeding.
The withdrawal of parental authority was finally pronounced.
Too late.
What monitoring of social services?
Beyond the mistreatment inflicted by the parents, the question of the social and judicial follow-up of the family raises questions.
How could a child have been kept at home when several alerts have been issued since her birth a year and a half ago?
In the ranks of child welfare, silence prevails.
The family was however followed by the social services of the department of Morbihan.
Contacted, the latter “do not wish to speak as long as a procedure is in progress”.
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