Girl, 13, ‘starved to death by mother because she looked like her father’

An evil parent starved her girl to decease aft subjecting her to 10 years of ‘punishment and violence’ for simply resembling her father.

Amandine weighed conscionable 62lbs erstwhile she died aged conscionable 13 with utmost value and musculus nonaccomplishment arsenic good arsenic septicaemia successful August 2020.

According to the aesculapian report, the skeletal teenager’s look was swollen and covered successful infected wounds.

She had besides mislaid respective teeth and had her hairsbreadth pulled out.

At the time, Amandine had been locked for weeks successful a windowless retention country and deprived of food.

Her mother, Sandrine Pissarra, subjected her to this appalling attraction for a decade, a French tribunal has been told.

After admitting her horrific crimes, prosecutors successful the confederate metropolis of Montpellier are calling for her to beryllium handed a beingness sentence.

The mum-of-eight reportedly told the tribunal ‘I americium a monstrous mother’ aft pleading admitting torture and barbarity against her daughter.

When asked wherefore she treated her kid truthful badly, Pissarra, 54, replied: ‘Because she looked similar her father.’

She should service a minimum of 20 years down bars, authoritative Jean-Marie Beney told the court.

He told the tribunal that from a young property Amandine was assaulted with brooms, punches, kicks, hairsbreadth pulling arsenic good arsenic repeated shouting, insults and jostling.

For Pissarra, ‘domestic tyrant, dictator of the home, executioner of Amandine, determination tin lone beryllium 1 condemnation – a beingness word with a minimum of 20 years served successful prison,’ said the prosecutor.

When Pissarra was questioned the time aft her daughter’s decease successful the colony of Montblanc, southbound westbound of Montpellier, she initially claimed she suffered from eating disorders – a assertion not confirmed by anyone else.

She said that connected the time of her death, Amandine had agreed to swallow a portion of sugar, a small stewed effect and a high-protein portion earlier she started to vomit and past stopped breathing.

The mother, who had been moving a nail salon, has 8 children from 3 relationships. She has been successful custody since May 2021.

The authoritative besides called for an 18-year situation condemnation for Pissarra’s ex-partner, Jean-Michel Cros, who helium labelled a ‘cowardly collaborator’ who ‘deprived Amandine of care’.

The 49-year-old, who faces 30 years successful situation for having ‘deprived his stepdaughter of attraction oregon food’, besides admitted the charges against him.

He reportedly told the tribunal ‘I consciousness tremendous guilt astir this’.

The investigating magistrate said determination was ‘no doubt’ Amandine endured unit from her mother, ‘the sole intent of which was to resistance her into shameful and humiliating agony’.

Her parent deprived her of food, inflicted endless ‘writing punishments’ connected her and locked her successful a retention country nether the surveillance of cameras from a young age, it said.

According to the psychiatric assessment, Pissarra, who was described arsenic aggravated and violent, was seeking to ‘transfer her hatred’ of Amandine’s begetter to her.

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