Efe Paris
Paris
Updated Sunday, January 21, 2024-17:30
The case of the French boy who lived alone between the ages of 9 and 11, for which his mother has been judicially convicted, has had an impact this week in France.
A court in Angoulême (in the center of the country) has sentenced the mother to
six months of electronic surveillance
, after considering abandonment proven because
she had gone to live with a friend
after divorcing her husband.
The boy stayed in the small town of Nersac and
ate as best he could
, with cold food that
he sometimes stole
and sometimes the neighbors of the
social housing block in which he lived
gave him .
Social services and the school did not detect anything because
the boy was a good student who did his homework
and came to the center properly dressed.
"I challenge anyone who can say that they would have detected this situation," he told the mayor of Nersac, Barbara Coutourier, to local media.
However, it was some neighbors who finally raised the alarm.
The 39-year-old mother defended her innocence in court, but was found guilty after the testimony of some neighbors and the prosecutor's investigation, which showed that there
was nothing in the apartment to indicate that an adult was present
and
the refrigerator was empty
.
In addition, telephone data showed that
the mother did not sleep with her son
or accompany him to school.