France has sentenced a woman to life imprisonment for starving his daughterwho died of a heart attack in 2020 at the age of 13 and after years of abuse.
At the trial, held in Montpellier, Sandrine Pissarra, 54, was convicted of inflict acts of torture and barbarity against his daughter Amandine. Thus, he must serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars before being eligible for parole, according to the terms of the sentence.
The verdict, the maximum penalty for the crime and in line with what prosecutors had demanded, has been agreed by a panel of three professional judges and six members of the public who acted as a jury.
For her part, Pissarra’s ex-partner, Jean-Michel Cros, 49, has been sentenced to 20 years of prison for depriving Amandine of care.
His sentence, which carried no possibility of parole, was harsher than the 18 years demanded by prosecutors, although he could have faced up to 30 years.
When Amandine died on August 6, 2020, He weighed only 28 kilos, measuring 1.55 meters high. The little girl had suffered extreme loss of weight and muscle mass, as well as septicemia, according to the medical report after her death. In addition, he had lost several teeth and his hair had been pulled out. The minor had been locked up for weeks in a windowless warehouse and deprived of food.
From a very young age, Amandine was a victim of beatings, including with brooms, punches, kicks, hair pulling, shouting, insults and pushing, according to prosecutor Jean-Marie Beney.
For Pissarra, “domestic tyrant, dictator of the home, executioner of Amandine, there can only be one sentence: life imprisonment with a minimum of 20 years in prison,” the prosecutor stated.
When questioned the day after her daughter’s death in the town of Montblanc, southwest of Montpellier, Pissarra said Amandine suffered from eating disorders, a claim that no one else confirmed.
He further added that on the day of her death, Amandine had agreed to swallow only a piece of sugar, some fruit puree and a protein-rich drink before she began to vomit and then stopped breathing.
The mother, who ran a nail salon, has eight children from three relationships. She has been detained since May 2021.
The prosecutor has described Cros as a “cowardly collaborator” who “deprived Amandine of care until her death.”
The investigating judge in charge of the case has stated in a report that “there is no doubt” that Amandine suffered violence at the hands of her mother, “whose sole objective was to drag her into a shameful and humiliating agony.”
Since she was little, Amandine was object of attacks by his motherwho deprived her of food, inflicted endless “writing punishments” and locked her in a warehouse under camera surveillance, the report states.
According to the psychiatric evaluation, Sandrine Pissarra, described by those around her as angry and violent, sought to “transfer her hatred” towards Amandine’s father to her daughter’s body.
One of the mother’s lawyers, Jean-Marc Darrigade, has assured that although there is an indisputable “individual responsibility” on his part, “there is also a collective responsibility.”
There was asked the jury to rule a “just and reasonable sentence” that would allow her to “return to society” without being “an old woman.”
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