Covered with blue, the little girl protected his parents.

Jean-Claude Ponson

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Covered with blue, the little girl protected his parents.

The gendarmes came in number for the girl", said the Attorney. "But I do not understand not more why the reports are not escalated earlier."

The 6-year-old girl had the body covered with bruises and burns. His father and his young partner had his daily violent punishments.

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ITE 6-year-old daughter was at school near Saint-Brieuc with an injury in the eye, a hematoma in the jaw or a red trace on the hand. She said she was beaten with his sister or that the cat had scratched him. Until September 2012, with pees, it had to be changed by the mistress. "She had bruises everywhere on the legs, belly, back... testified it. I asked him who made it. No, she replied. "The school doctor is called to the rescue. "It's a nice that did you that?" he queries. "Yes, this is my dad, we play," says the little girl.

> A referral is made to the child protection services. At the hospital the doctor said multiple bruises of different ages and some traces of cigarette burns. Neighbors echo the frequent and noisy quarrels between the father of the little girl and his partner, who is not the mother of the child. The couple who has been together a second little girl is being tracked by the judge for children and educational monitoring. The father is also a child of 12 years it has not recognised.

> Under the cold shower

> The girl told investigators that it "bullshit" and that that she considers her mother as a punishment, puts it under the cold shower. With his father it is rather spatulas or foot shots when it did not its lessons. The concubine explains that she is terrorized by her violent husband. Spouse, he doesn't remember or minimizes and accuses her companion. The two girls are today placed in foster care.

The couple now lives separate. The psychiatric expert speaks of a 22 year old immature mother, who reported his disappointment with the breakdown of her relationship on the girl child. While the father, 32-year-old who was a child abused, presents its violence as justified. "His false assurance is an attitude of defense against the questioning of his intellectual abilities, believes his lawyer. These are two children who wanted to raise children. »

Counsel for the girl regrets that the many reports submitted by the school, the neighbors but also the grandmother of the girl, have not been more quickly taken into account. "Why this man and this woman are passed so often between the meshes of the net. "The aftermath of reporting, constables came in number for the girl", said the Attorney. "But I do not understand not more why the reports are not escalated earlier."

The Court sentenced the father to 30 months in prison including 18 suspended and put through its paces for 2 years and ban to see his estranged girlfriend and her daughter, unless decided by the juvenile court judge. The concubine he sentenced to 20 months in prison, with 16 months suspended. Both parents will have to pay 5 000 euros in damages and interest to the victim.

Fabienne RICHARD West - France