Pas-de-Calais: children discovered at home tied up and covered in excrement, parents arrested
The police discovered a horror scene that suggests the hell experienced by these children. Tuesday morning, the police raided accommodation in Noyelles-sous-Lens (Pas-de-Calais) following a report. At the origin of this intervention, the eldest of a family of ten children, aged 24, wishing to file a complaint after being thrown out of the family home by his father, reports this Friday the voice of the North.
He explains living in hell with his brothers and sisters. On the spot, the civil servants discover children who live in deplorable conditions. Among them, the youngest, aged 2 and another aged 5, are sleeping, tied to their high chair, bathing in sofas filled with excrement and urine. Investigators discover that the youngest has motor and speech delays. He would never have touched the ground according to News Pas-de-Calais.
According to a source close to the investigation, quoted by our colleagues, the children “would have – for a long time – experienced a real ordeal”. They were not allowed to leave the house, continue Actu. These, educated were not very assiduous in class. The older ones recounted having lived a childhood of spanking, binding and deprivation of liberty.
The mayor has “goosebumps”
The parents, aged 44 and 40, were placed in police custody for violence against minors by ascending and evading legal obligations. They admitted the facts and were presented to a judge before being placed under judicial control pending a judgment. The mother was a job seeker, the father an undeclared mechanic.
The couple live explains with 2,700 in monthly allowances and having tied up the children “to prevent decimating nonsense”, according to the future of Artois. A placement order was issued for each of the minors. They had to “be washed before being placed” specifies the Voix du Nord. The parents encourage two years in prison and a 30,000 euro fine.
Contacted this Friday by our colleagues, the mayor of Noyelles-sous-Lens, Alain Roger, said he was “stunned” when he discovered what was happening in his town, especially since the accommodation in question, managed by the association Soliha, is located a stone’s throw from the town hall: “For us, it’s not a closed family. We see them regularly, the children go to kindergarten and primary school and we see the mother driving them to school. They are not registered with the CCAS of the municipality. It gives goosebumps to hear the fate reserved for children…”