2023-05-18 21:12:00
A 14-year-old teenager had lived as a recluse at home in Rennes since birth. Placed in police custody on Monday, his mother was indicted and placed under judicial supervision pending trial, according to BFM TV. She will have to answer in particular for the facts of “subtraction by a parent from his legal obligations” and “deprivation of care or food”, had indicated Philippe Astruc, the prosecutor of Rennes, to West Francewho reported the matter on Wednesday.
His physical appearance alerted the doctors
It was the pediatric emergencies of Rennes which had alerted the justice system to the situation of this boy several months ago, in July 2022. The child had been taken there by his mother, following a malaise, according to She. The appearance of the boy had struck the doctors, reports the regional daily: weighing 25 kg (two times less than the average of adolescents of his age), he presented a delay in intellectual development and had difficulty expressing himself.
The teenager had been placed in social assistance for children after this passage to the hospital. His situation has since been followed by the children’s judge, said the Rennes prosecutor to the regional press daily.
The mother denies any abuse
According to Ouest-France, the child spent most of his time locked up at home, in an apartment in the Breton capital. He would have been born abroad and would have been declared to the French embassy in his native country, according to information obtained by BFMTV. But no other trace of his existence: he did not go to school – his mother believing that it was up to her to educate him – nor to the doctor, nor was he followed by social services. .
“My child and I had been living a happy and fulfilling life on a daily basis for fourteen years within society and the world”, reacted his mother to Ouest-France on Thursday, saying that he did not understand what was happening to him. For Emmanuel Ludot, his lawyer, this is a “very atypical” case. “We are dealing with a young man obviously with high intellectual potential, who has grown on his own, and who has lived in a very fusional way with his mother, he said at the microphone of BFMTV. He is not unhappy, he is not a child who was deprived, but who had an education which is not the education of all children. It is not the norm”.
The trial of the teenager’s mother will take place next October, announces France Blue. She faces a sentence of seven years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros.
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