The Namur prosecutor’s office requested an eight-month suspended prison sentence before the criminal court of Dinant, against a mother born in 1985 who was prosecuted for beating her 16-year-old daughter on May 25, 2019 in Vresse. -sur-Semois.
“This young woman did not want to go home after school because she said she was the victim of violence at the hands of her mother”, indicated the Namur prosecutor’s office. “He was beaten after an argument provoked by the photo of his mother found on her mobile phone. There was a second scene in the bedroom where the young woman was punched and kicked and pulled by the hair. The mother also threatened to He left him on the street.
The defendant admitted slapping the teenager twice but disputed the facts of the second scene. “That day, he threw dishes and cutlery because he did not accept that I control his social networks. He also threw a glass in my face in the presence of other children, “he explained justifying the two slaps.
“Her daughter was incapable,” added the mother’s lawyer who is pleading for her acquittal. “He was sent to several centers and hospitalization in psychiatry was even considered by the SAJ. His mother was trying to fix a frame that he exceeded. He is not an abused child but a child who, that day, degenerates and attacks others family members.”
Judgment December 21.