The affair caused a real media storm in May. In Rennes, a 48-year-old mother is accused of having cut off her 15-year-old son from the world since his birth. It was after a medical report that the teenager was taken from his mother in July 2022 and placed in a home. Following a consultation in the pediatric emergency room, doctors noted that the child weighed only 25 kg, half the average for adolescents his age. Never educated or vaccinated, the latter also suffered, according to the medical profession, from educational and intellectual deficits.
A version contradicted by the mother who will appear Thursday afternoon before the Rennes criminal court for “deprivation of care” and “evasion of her legal obligations. » Questioned by numerous media when the affair broke out, the forty-year-old, from a wealthy background, denied any abuse, explaining that she herself provided education for her son at home and that he did not was in no way hidden or enclosed. “My son was always at the library, at the museum, at the theater, in game libraries, in exhibitions,” said the mother, who raised her child alone in Paris before moving to Rennes during the Covid pandemic. 19.
An “over-loved” child, according to the mother’s lawyer
His lawyer, Maître Emmanuel Ludot, also assures that the teenager was “neither mistreated nor malnourished” but has a “frail” build, weighing “33 kg for 1.47 meters” at the time of his placement. He also refutes any mental retardation in the child. “Child welfare found that he excelled in certain subjects, such as literature, but found deficiencies in others, such as maths,” he emphasizes.
According to him, the teenager was above all “over-loved” with a mother who “suffocates him and does to him what he wants, eats what he wants, studies what he wants”. “There is an overflow of affection, unlike many cases of abused children where it is the opposite,” he says. In this “atypical” case, according to the lawyer’s own admission, the mother faces a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros.