The verdict of the trial of Amandine’s mother, Sandrine P., and her father-in-law, Jean-Michel C., tried for having allowed the young girl to die of starvation has been reached. Both were found guilty by the courts.
This Friday, January 24, the trial of Sandrine P. and Jean-Michel C., accused of having let Amandine, 13 years old, die of starvation, whose body was found in 2020 at the family home in a rickety state (she weighed only more than 28 kilos for 1m55), took place. Amandine’s mother, Sandrine Pissara, was sentenced to life imprisonment with 20 years of security. For the young girl’s father-in-law, Jean-Michel Cros, a sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment was handed down, according to BFMTV. Both were found guilty.
I am “a monstrous mother”
As a reminder, Tuesday evening, Amandine’s mother recognized the “acts of torture and barbarity” on her daughter. Thursday, she also returned to the “slaps” inflicted on her daughter. “Yes, hair pulling, that happened to me,” she also conceded. On the other hand, she justifies her actions “because she looked like her father”, and she assures him: Amandine “ate what she wanted”. An analysis difficult to hear after the autopsy of the body and the testimonies of the victim’s little brother (Ethan) and big sister (Ambre), indicating in particular that their sister was undernourished. Ethan sometimes even tried to get her food “under the door” of the storage room in which she was locked.
Also this Thursday, before the Montpellier Assize Court, Sandrine P. indicated that she was “a monstrous mother”, but that she loved her daughter. “I never wanted her to die,” she said, crying. However, she maintains that she no longer remembers this period during which her daughter suffered her torture.
She admits to having been beaten herself as a child
Regarding the punishments she gave her daughter, Sandrine P. “told her to go downstairs”. “In the same room, Amandine and Ambre were arguing,” continues the mother, saying she “turned a blind eye to the state” of her daughter’s health. “She asked you for food, water?” asks the president. “I don’t know anymore,” replies Sandrine P.
She also confirmed the fact that she punished her daughter “for everything”, before giving more details about her childhood, which could be at the origin of her actions. She describes a childhood as a little girl who was beaten and malnourished. “We were three children, my mother complained about not having enough money. I was beaten. Slaps, slaps, humiliation. I was ashamed to talk about it,” she says.
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17:36 – Amandine’s mother will not appeal
This Friday, Amandine’s mother was sentenced to life imprisonment. Will she appeal? No, as his lawyer confirmed on BFMTV. “She decided not to appeal (…) She has already agreed to accept the sentence which was pronounced by the Hérault Assize Court to avoid imposing the punishment on her children. emotional burden and the pain of a new trial,” he says.
17:21 – “The verdict is up to par”
“I hope that there will be no appeal and that everyone will be able to rebuild their lives (…) My client was there to honor the memory of his daughter, justice has been served. Now he will remain silent” , indicates the lawyer of Amandine’s father, this Friday, leaving the Montpellier Assize Court, after the verdict and the life sentence pronounced against Sandrine Pissara. According to him, “the verdict is commensurate with the seriousness of the facts”, and Amandine’s dad “does not have to react, he was not there for revenge”, he concludes.
17:00 – Amandine’s mother sentenced to life imprisonment, stepfather to 20 years in prison
The verdict has just come. Amandine’s mother, Sandrine Pissara, was sentenced to life imprisonment with 20 years of security. For the young girl’s father-in-law, Jean-Michel Cros, a sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment was handed down, according to BFMTVa sentence more severe than the requisitions of the attorney general (18 years). Both were therefore found guilty.
2:32 p.m. – “I want to apologize to my children”
“I would like to apologize to my children,” declared Sandrine Pissara, when the hearing resumed this Friday afternoon, during the last words of the accused. The father-in-law, Jean-Marc C., “has nothing to add”. Now, jurors’ deliberations are expected in the coming hours. BFMTV mentions a communication at the end of the afternoon.
11:39 – According to her lawyer, Amandine’s mother “is not indefensible”
“How can we defend her? She is not indefensible and it is an honor to defend her. To defend is not to endorse”, launched this Friday morning, the lawyer for Amandine’s mother before the court of Assizes of Montpellier, Me Louis Dolez. According to him, “this maternal violence does not fall from the sky”. Comments reported by a BFMTV journalist present at the hearing in Hérault.
10:46 – “I don’t believe in anything”, the attorney general dismantles the mother’s defense
“You have penetrated into the unthinkable, into the unspeakable. You have penetrated into the Pissarra system. Into the family dictatorship. In an unimaginable world (…) Since she was little, Amandine has been the victim of blows. Punches , kicks, brooms, hair pulling, insults, shoving,” launched the attorney general this Friday.
As a reminder, yesterday, Amandine’s mother admitted to having been “monstrous with her daughter”, but still highlighting a tumultuous childhood, tinged with violence of which she herself was a victim. For the attorney general, this does not make sense: “I don’t believe in anything! Because for 4 years, these elements were never mentioned,” he maintains.
10:35 – Amandine’s father-in-law described as a “collaborator” by the attorney general
“There is white torture: solitary confinement to reduce one’s spatial and temporal perception of an individual. It is used in all dictatorships. And the punishments, kneeling on a roller. And worse still, the compulsory nudity. On a 13-year-old girl (…) In any totalitarian system, there are collaborators, and I see one in the box, it’s Mr. Cros”, the stepfather said. attorney general this Friday Morning. “When we installed the cameras and put the lock, when we see these terrifying images of Amandine exhausted, falling, if we have an ounce of humanity, we react. When we see a teenager who is starving, we react !”, he continues.