At the Assises de l'Hérault (illustration) -

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The unbearable trial of the death of little Kenzo, on February 14, 2017, in Lunel (Hérault), is coming to an end.

This Friday, life imprisonment was required against Teddy, a 35-year-old mason, tried by the Hérault Assize Court for "a crime of exceptional savagery", "the massacre" of his son. ex-partner.

The Advocate General also requested 20 years in prison against the mother of the child, Angelina, 23 years old, "who witnessed the killing of her son and did nothing" while he "It was enough to go out, to shout".

He thus requested the maximum sentences against the two defendants, and recalled that nearly a hundred recent bruises had been found all over the body of the child, who died of a burst liver in the sordid camera of 'a hotel room.

Doctors compared to the bar of the Assize Court what the baby had undergone with the violence of a "road accident".

A "chilling" video

"You judge the massacre of a child whose torture lasted four and a half months, you judge child torturers.

This trial is that of a savage and an unworthy mother who let it go, "said the Advocate General, speaking of a" toxic, destructive couple, who will martyr, sacrifice "Kenzo.

The Advocate General also returned to a "chilling video" of December 15, 2016, where we see the baby, on the ground, in a wasteland, while Teddy pretends to run over him with his vehicle, the headlights on. on him, while Angelina films.

The unbearable video was shown during the trial.

He focused on "a terrifying episode" on January 21, 2017, when Teddy is accused of having burned the little boy's thumb in the 3rd degree with a lighter.

"We can not imagine the suffering of the little one, the cries he must have uttered," he continued.

The attorney general read the insults, death threats, incitement to hit the child contained in messages from Teddy to his partner, noting that she was also hit.

"It's going to end badly, you scare me," Angelina wrote to her companion a few days before the child's death.

"My son and I, we are not your shortcomings".

Verdict this Friday

The Advocate General considered "appalling" that the various doctors who saw the child, in particular for a serious burn, did not report ill-treatment.

Teddy, who denies the facts with which he is accused, must answer for "murder" of a minor, "torture or barbaric act on a minor by a person having authority over him and recurrence of usual violence".

The mother is for her part judged for complicity in torture or barbaric act on a minor by an ascendant, non-denunciation of ill-treatment, deprivation, assault or sexual abuse, non-denunciation of a crime, non-assistance to a person in danger and usual violence against a minor.

The verdict is expected Friday afternoon or evening.

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