She left the family home one evening in June 2024, telling her 13-year-old daughter that she would return within an hour. It didn’t happen. The very young teenager had to manage her 8-year-old brother and 7-month-old sister alone for very long hours. This mother, who did not answer the phone all night while her distraught eldest tried to contact her because the baby had woken up, did not reappear until the next day at 8 p.m.
In the meantime, this 30-year-old Spanish woman had still picked up her daughter on the phone in the morning, while she was drunk and at a friend’s house. The child had asked him to come home, but was refused. According to the criminal order which relates this sad affair, the adult told her that, like her, she also had the right to have fun – comments that she denied when she was interviewed by the police in October.
The fact remains that after having once again promised her daughter to return “in an hour and a half”, she had once again disappeared, remained unreachable and had ended up in the hospital, not reappearing at home until 8 p.m. hours.
One thing led to another, this abandonment reached the ears of the justice system: in August, the teenager, “very touched by these events”, confided in a teacher from her Orientation Cycle, who warned her management, who spoke with the Minor Protection Service. The latter denounced the facts to the Public Prosecutor’s Office immediately, which took action: this divorced mother, unemployed and in the General Hospice, was found guilty of violation of the duty of assistance or education. She received a 50-day fine of 50 francs per day. With the procedural costs, she will have to pay 3,010 francs. To date, she has not objected.
