The trial for the extreme violence against little Yanis in 2018 opened on Monday January 9 in Douai. Only two years old at the time of the events, the little boy suffered the horror of his torturer whose personality was examined.
Violence, rape or murder of minors are always difficult to hear and upset the French. The murder of little Maëlys, kidnapped and killed by Nordahl Lelendais at a wedding, had shocked France. Just like the barbaric murder of little Lola. Stories that send shivers down your spine and unfortunately don’t seem to end.
In 2018, little Yanis went through hell. Only aged two and a half years at the time of the events, the little boy had been entrusted by his mother Christine P. to a couple of friends in Auberchicourt. For two weeks, little Yanis was beaten, tortured and humiliated. His torturers subjected him to “unheard-of violence, exercised gratuitously” recalls the Advocate General. During alcoholic evenings, the little boy was tied up with tape, used as a soccer ball, trampled on and pushed down the stairs, or deprived of sleep. During his hospitalization, Yanis was placed in an artificial coma. He suffered severe head trauma, fractures of the pelvis, tibia and numerous hematomas.
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His torturer described as impulsive and self-centered
Sébastien B., one of Yanis’s torturers, was the subject of an expertise by the psychologist Yves Delannoy. The latter indicated that Sébastien B. had been the victim of violence in his childhood and that he had reproduced the abuse he suffered on little Yanis. Described as a personality self-centered, immature, and impulsive, the psychologist is rather pessimistic about his ability to progress.
The same psychologist analyzed mother Christine P. as also self-centered and lost. “She loves Yanis in her own way, pathologically” indicates the expert. She faces up to six years in prison for not having denounced the violence and not having had her son treated immediately after recovering him. Little Yanis has significant consequences from his ordeal. He took two years to learn to walk again and has an IQ “bordering on mild mental retardation”, according to the personality investigator’s report.
The verdict of the trial will be rendered Friday, January 20.