In July 2022, Rennes hospital took in a lonely and very thin teenager. His mother hid him from birth. When questioned, she seems to deny any abuse of her child.
For fourteen years, a 48-year-old mother hid her child. The adolescent’s ordeal ended in July 2022, when he was hospitalized in the pediatric emergency room of the Rennes University Hospital (Ille-et-Vilaine) due to poisoning. The findings of the doctors are shocking: the young man weighed only 25 kg, in addition to having growth retardation and a language delay. A report was then made, leading to his placement in child welfare. According to our colleagues from West Francehis mother, placed in police custody this Monday, May 15, then released under judicial supervisiondoes not realize the seriousness of the facts.
“My child and I had lived a happy and fulfilling life on a daily basis within society and the world for fourteen years”, she assured in the columns of the daily, this Thursday, May 18. According to the public prosecutor of Rennes, she is summoned next October before the criminal court For “evasion by a parent of his legal obligations compromising the health, safety, morals or education of his child, and deprivation of care or food compromising the health of a minor under 15 years of age by ascendant or person having authority “. A decision that the mother does not understand. “I am a very loving mother“she says, before trying to justify her son’s stunted growth and weight: “We are not crosses on a growth chart. It was a big mistake that happened to us.”
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The child “was known and was going out” according to relatives of the mother
For his lawyer, questioned by our colleagues, “not all medical findings or defects related to the upbringing or development of a child are necessarily criminal offences”. judging decision “extremely [brutale]”he estimates that “the children’s judge or social workers should have set up medical or social support rather than place this child”. The teenager would not have lived totally isolated: “It was reported to me by relatives of the mother that this child was known and was going out.“