Two little girls aged five and seven lived alone next to the body of their deceased mother († 31) in an apartment in France for several days. As the public prosecutor in Le Mans announced on Saturday, police had found the girl and the body on Wednesday in the apartment in the city in northwest France. The school had alerted the police after the girls had been absent for a long time without excuse.
When the police wanted to enter the apartment, the girls said: “Be quiet, Mommy is asleep.” The police then found the body of the previously ill woman from Ivory Coast. According to forensic medicine, she died of natural causes.
For days with a dead mother
The officers first took the girls to hospital and later to care facilities, where they received psychological care. It was still unclear exactly how long the girls were alone with their dead mother in the apartment. According to the public prosecutor’s office, it is more than two days, but not weeks either.
Prosecutor Delphine Dewailly told the AFP news agency that the investigators are ruling out a crime: “We’ll wait a few days and then try to get testimony from the little girls.” (AFP)