In Reims, 4 children were discovered alone in an apartment on Sunday May 26. They cooked on the ground, in the middle of excrement. The mother and her partner were taken into police custody.
Abandoned to their fate. Sunday May 26, 2024, four children aged 2 to 6 years old were found in an “empty and dirty” apartment located in the city of Reims, in Marne, reports France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne. Their mother and her partner, who is not their father, had left the family home, leaving them completely alone and unsupervised.
It was a relative of the couple, whom the mother allegedly asked to take care of them, who notified the emergency services. Absent when firefighters arrived on site, the two spouses were quickly arrested and placed in police custody. Started on Sunday, it was extended Monday evening, according to the city’s public prosecutor, François Schneider.
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The 4 children suffer from “psychological after-effects”
The 4 children, who were left behind in this apartment, were discovered without “clothes nor food”, revealed François Schneider. At the time of the emergency intervention, they were trying to “cooking food on a hot plate placed on the floor”, he continued. According to our colleagues from France Bleu Champagne-Ardenne, “excrement” littered on the ground among them.
The young children were immediately “hospitalized for monitoring” to be examined. If they are not “malnourished”, according to the public prosecutor, they suffer from “psychological after-effects”. They should probably “be placed” this Tuesday, May 28, he also indicated. The mother, who was not present when the emergency services arrived, returned to her home later in the evening of Sunday May 26. Coming face to face with the police and firefighters on site, she immediately contacted her partner. The latter did not fail to confront the authorities upon his arrival.
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The mother and her companion already known to the police
According to information from the public prosecutor, the mother was “at a friend’s house” when emergency services intervened. For his part, his companion “declared not to be in Reims”, as reported The Parisian. The two individuals, aged 32, were arrested and taken into custody at the Reims police station, around 8:35 p.m., François Schneider said.
The mother is accused of “negligence by a parent in her legal duties endangering the health and safety of her children”, while the man is prosecuted for “opposition to authority” and “non-compliance with ‘a measure of judicial control’. But this is not the first time they have faced justice. Both were indeed already known to the judicial authorities: she for offenses linked to the possession and sale of illicit substances, and he for domestic violence. He was also placed under judicial surveillance for “attacks within the home” and “mistreatment of the four children involved” at the time of the events.
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