The police discovered this Sunday three minors, aged eight months to twelve years, locked alone in their family home. Their father has been in prison for several months, and the mother has been arrested for child abandonment.
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The police discovered three abandoned children in their apartment in Nîmes on Sunday June 18, learned France Bleu Gard Lozère. Their mother was arrested and taken into custody.
Around 11 p.m., the police were called to screaming and crying children in an apartment. The agents then discovered on the spot an 8-month-old baby and children aged 2 and 12, abandoned in the family home. The siblings were locked up and alone in the accommodation. According to the police, they spent long hours alone during the day and evening.
Already followed by social services
When the mother came home from work, she noticed that her children were no longer at home. She then called a patrol. Police officers arrested him and took him into custody for child abandonment.
The mother is already known to the police, she is followed by social services, says France Bleu Gard Lozère. The father has been in prison for several months for another case. The children were handed over to their grandmother, pending the intervention of social services.