Tragic Christmas Eve in France: a woman who claimed to be “possessed” murdered her 8-year-old nephew with knives

38-year-old woman arrested in France and taken into police custody after murder her eight year old nephew with a knife and injure another four-year-old niece.

As indicated by the site franceinfo, the perpetrator told the police that was “possessedWhen he seized a 15 cm knife and attacked his nephews on the night of December 24 to 25 in a house in the town of Limay, on the outskirts of Paris.

Medical services intervened at around 3 a.m. after a person informed that there was a person who I carried a bloody baby on the street. The little one was in heart failure and had a dozen injuries, police sources reported.

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Despite the efforts of the doctors, the little boy did not survive. Police later found her 4-year-old sister with serious injuries to her arms and legs. The girl was transferred to the hospital and her prognosis is not compromised.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the woman, who also had sharp wounds on the arms, lived with her nephews and had been responsible for them while her sister went to celebrate Christmas.

Wife woke up the little ones in the middle of the night come out into the garden of his residence, and also took his own baby, who was found unharmed. It was here that he attacked the children with a kitchen knife, which later hidden between plants.

According to franceinfo, the attacker was already under psychiatric treatment.

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Domestic violence kills a child every five days in France

According to official figures, a child dies every five days on average in France victim of abuse and domestic violence. There are about 72 cases per year which represent “a little less than 10%” of homicides in France, according to the magazine. Point.

However, these figures “must be interpreted with caution because they only reveal part of the phenomenon,” said the National Child Protection Observatory, which speaks of an underestimation of cases.

In 2018, there were 80 cases of intra-family infanticide, according to The world. Most of the victims (55) were between 0 and 4 years old, 14 from 5 to 9, eight from 10 to 14 and three from 15 to 17 years old. mostly girls: 44 against 36 men, details the French newspaper based on statistics from the police and gendarmerie.