US EditionFrench Court Tries Couple Accused of Plan to ‘Sacrifice’ 5-Year-Old Son in Moroccan Desert
FRANCE, JUL 17 – Court found no proof of a planned sacrifice but gave the parents 18-month suspended sentences for neglect and placed the child with maternal grandparents, officials said.
- On Thursday, a French couple went on trial, accused of planning to sacrifice their five-year-old son in the Moroccan desert, with the court ruling no evidence supported the sacrifice but imposing suspended sentences for neglect.
- Holding mystical beliefs led an alarmed relative to report a possession-driven sacrifice plot.
- Investigators found the parents boarding a ferry to Morocco, and Merlene Labadie said the child `spoke of being cold, scared and removing the snake within us`.
- Ruling on Thursday removed parental custody, but parents received 18-month suspended sentences for parental failure.
- Though court-appointed experts found no mental illness, Florian L. said `What governs my life is love, Christianity`, highlighting the interplay of belief and legal scrutiny.
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Bordeaux prosecutor appeals court ruling that freed parents - Father planned to found a new religion
On Thursday 18 July, a couple of music teachers appeared before the Bordeaux Correctional Court, suspected of having inflicted on their five-year-old child abuses assimilated as exorcism. The case, which occurred in Carcans (Gironde) in the autumn of 2023, revealed a chain of behaviours deemed "destructive" by the investigators.According to Sud Ouest, the young boy, named Gabriel, was forced to make confusing gestures: to throw his doudo on the …
Couple planned Morocco trip 'to sacrifice their five-year-old son in desert' - The Mirror
Two music teachers from the town of Carcans in Bordeaux, France, were en route to the Sahara Desert - where the father allegedly planned to perform an occult initiation rite
The couple had been arrested with their son in December 2023 in Spain while embarking for Morocco, where they wanted to exorcise the 5-year-old child.
A couple of Girondins suspected of wanting to "save" their child in the Sahara desert, Morocco, was tried before the Bordeaux Correctional Court on 17 July.
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