A 44 -year -old man was tried by the Nancy Criminal Court for violence that led to an inability greater than eight days on his 6 -year -old son. His educational methods are implicated.
Threats of abandonment led to the ordeal of a 6 -year -old child. The case was brought before the Nancy Criminal Court in mid-March and must be tried on May 12. He is accused of Khairadine M. for having undergone his son, now 7 years old, violence that led to an inability greater than eight days last October during Halloween evening, reports The Parisian.
In the evening of October 31, 2024, the little boy was taken care of at the Bradois University Hospital: the child had a swollen face, a black eye, three skull wounds, one of which revealing the bone, and an important heel wound which has not still consolidated several months after the facts. The little boy’s state required a three -week hospitalization following which he returned home in a wheelchair.
What happened so that a child presents so many injuries? His father’s educational method seems to have turned to drama. On the day of the facts, the little boy, whose parents separated during pregnancy, is left to the charge of his father. The latter, unhappy with the behavior of his son at the airy center, reprimanded him with several unconventional methods. The 44 -year -old man first took the child to the gendarmes to lecture him, before driving him by car on an isolated path to pretend to abandon him. “I’m going to abandon you in a cemetery full of monsters and zombies,” he said to his son according to the words of the child in the court reported by The Parisian.
It was on a deserted path of the commune of Liverdun, located in the Nancy agglomeration, that the father put his threats. “Still!” Would he have said to his son who told the hearing “hung on the door” of the car during not to be alone in the middle of nowhere. The little boy was thus dragged over more than a hundred meters by the car led by his father, without the latter noticing his presence. The child ended up letting go rolling in the way and ending injured on the road.
“Your son could have been killed”
During the trial, Khairadine M. unrolled another version of the facts and expressed remorse. He explained that he had “found this path by mistake” coming back from the home of one of the aunts of his son: “I was mired, the child was crying, I made him go out to focus on my maneuver”. A justification that has not convinced the president: “You refuse to look in front, you louvoy, but that evening, your son could have been killed, screened against a tree!”
If the lawyer for the civil party Marianne Waeckerlé heard the remorse of the father, she recalled the violent character of her acts: “Admittedly, Monsieur did not wish these consequences, but even if Maël had not had 7 staples on the skull, the simple fact of having wanted to scare him by leaving him alone on this path, in the dark night, it is already a violence in itself”. “When we commit these kinds of facts, we are not a father!” Added the substitute for prosecutor Natacha Collot. Especially since these violence would not be the first according to the public prosecutor who estimated that certain injuries of the child “cannot come to the simple fact of having been dragged” and come from “previous violence”.
The prosecution relied on the statements made by the little boy to doctors during his medical examination. The child allegedly mentioned belt, tapping and cold showers received after he pee in bed. His mother said that it was not the first time that his former spouse had threeded the child to abandon him in the forest. Elements that have not led to the opening of an investigation by the prosecution.
The withdrawal of parental authority was required against Khairadine M. in more than three years imprisonment, two of which had a stay. The defendant’s lawyer, for his part, asked that the case be reclassified and tried for “involuntary attack”. The little boy, still “traumatized” according to his mother, made nightmares at night and struggles to sleep alone.