A nine-year-old boy lived alone for two years in a village in France. Why didn't anyone see anything unusual?

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Cities were supposed to be the place where humans tended to isolate themselves and where no one knew anyone, the paradise, or hell, of individualism. In the villages, on the other hand, there was a community. Everyone knew each other. They helped each other or, at least, were observed.Continue reading

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He lived alone, in an abandoned apartment and disconnected from electricity and heat, and fed on food that his neighbors left him, out of pity. It is the story of a nine-year-old boy who was abandoned by his mother and who continued to attend school despite the hardships.

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The case is shocking France. A nine-year-old boy was abandoned by his mother. The 39-year-old woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the crime of child abandonment. She lived with her boyfriend five kilometers away.