娘を虐待・餓死させた女に終身刑　フランス

【モンペリエＡＦＰ＝時事】南仏モンペリエの裁判所は２４日、１３歳の娘を虐待の末に餓死させた母親に終身刑を言い渡した。娘は長年虐待を受け、２０２０年８月６日に心臓発作を起こして死亡した。食事をずっと与えられておらず、身長１５５センチに対し、体重は２８キロしかなかった。（写真は資料写真）
　サンドリーヌ・ピサラ被告（５４）は、娘のアマンディーヌさんを虐待したとして有罪となった。判決によると、仮釈放の資格を得るまでに最低でも２０年服役しなければならない。
　判決はこの罪に対する最高刑。検察の求刑が、裁判官３人と陪審員６人の合議体によって認められた。
　また、ピサラ被告の元パートナー、ジャンミシェル・クロ被告（４９）は、アマンディーヌさんへのネグレクト（育児放棄）で禁錮２０年を言い渡された。
　クロ被告には仮釈放の可能性はない。検察が求刑した禁錮１８年より重い量刑となったが、法定刑では最長で禁錮３０年を科される可能性もあった。
　ジャンマリ・ベニー検事はクロ被告について、「アマンディーヌさんが死ぬまで世話しなかった」「卑怯（ひきょう）な協力者」と非難した。
　ピサラ被告は同日午後の最終陳述で、「子どもたちに謝りたい。それだけだ」「何も付け加えることはない」と述べた。
　検視報告書によれば、アマンディーヌさんは極度に痩せ、筋肉量も極めて少なく、敗血症を患っていた。歯も数本失い、髪も抜けていた。窓のない物置部屋に何週間も閉じ込められ、食事も与えられていなかった。
　ベニー検事によると、アマンディーヌさんは幼少期から、ほうきなどでたたく、殴る蹴る、小突く、髪を引っ張るなどの暴行を受ける他、たびたび怒鳴られ、言葉の暴力も受けていた。
　ベニー検事はピサラ被告を「家庭内の暴君、家庭内の独裁者、アマンディーヌさんの処刑人」と呼び、最低２０年は仮釈放が許可されない終身刑以外あり得ないと訴えた。
　■元パートナーへの憎しみを娘の体に
　モンペリエの南西にあるモンブラン村でアマンディーヌさんが死亡した翌日、ピサラ被告は取り調べに対し、アマンディーヌさんは摂食障害を患っていたと主張した。この主張は他の誰からも裏付けを取れていない。
　ピサラ被告によれば、アマンディーヌさんが死の当日に口にしたのは、砂糖ひとかけら、フルーツピューレ少量、高たんぱく飲料だけで、その後、嘔吐（おうと）を始め、呼吸が止まった。
　２０２１年３月から勾留されているピサラ被告は、ネイルサロンの経営者で、３人のパートナーとの間に８人の子どもがいる。
　本件を担当する捜査判事は報告書で、アマンディーヌさんがピサラ被告から暴力を受けていたことは「疑いようがない」と指摘。「その唯一の目的は、アマンディーヌさんを恥ずべき、屈辱的な苦しみに引きずり込むことだった」と続けた。
　さらに、アマンディーヌさんは幼い頃からピサラ被告の標的にされ、食事を与えられず、「罰としての書き取り」を延々とさせられ、監視カメラ付きの物置部屋に閉じ込められていたとしている。
　精神鑑定によると、ピサラ被告はアマンディーヌさんの父親に対する憎しみを、アマンディーヌさんの体にぶつけようとしていたとされる。ピサラ被告は周囲の人々から、怒りっぽく、暴力的だと評されていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/01/27-16:50）

A French woman was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for starving to death her daughter, who died of a heart attack in 2020 at the age of 13 after years of abuse.
The court in the southern city of Montpellier convicted Sandrine Pissarra, 54, of inflicting acts of torture and barbarity on her daughter Amandine.
She must serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars before being eligible for parole, according to the terms of the sentence.
The verdict, the maximum sentence for the crime and in line with what prosecutors demanded, was agreed by a panel of three professional judges and six members of the public serving as a jury.
Pissarra's ex-partner, Jean-Michel Cros, 49, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for depriving Amandine of care.
His sentence, which carried no possibility of parole, was more severe than the 18 years demanded by prosecutors although he could have faced up to 30 years.
I want to apologize to my children, that's all, said Pissarra earlier in the afternoon in her final statement. I have nothing to add, said Cros.
When her daughter Amandine died on August 6, 2020, she weighed just 28 kilograms (62 pounds) and was 1.55 metres (five feet and one inch) tall.
Amandine had suffered extreme weight and muscle loss as well as septicaemia, according to the medical report after her death.
She had also lost several teeth and had her hair pulled out. Amandine had been locked for weeks in a windowless storage room and deprived of food.
From a very young age, Amandine suffered blows -- including with brooms -- punches, kicks, hair pulling, repeated shouting, insults and jostling, prosecutor Jean-Marie Beney said.
For Pissarra, domestic tyrant, dictator of the home, executioner of Amandine, there can only be one sentence -- a life term with a minimum of 20 years served in prison, said the prosecutor.
- 'Humiliating agony' -
Questioned the day after her daughter's death in the village of Montblanc southwest of Montpellier, Pissarra said Amandine suffered from eating disorders -- a claim not confirmed by anyone else.
She said that on the day of her death, Amandine had agreed to swallow only a piece of sugar, a little fruit puree and a high-protein drink before she started to vomit and then stopped breathing.
The mother, who had been running a nail salon, has eight children from three relationships. She has been in custody since May 2021.
The prosecutor had meanwhile branded Cros a cowardly collaborator who deprived Amandine of care until her death.
The investigating magistrate in charge of the case said in a report there was no doubt Amandine endured violence from her mother, the sole purpose of which was to drag her into shameful and humiliating agony.
Amandine had from a young age been targeted by her mother, who deprived her of food, inflicted endless writing punishments on her and locked her in a storage room under the surveillance of cameras, it said.
According to the psychiatric assessment, Sandrine Pissarra, described by those around her as angry and violent, was seeking to transfer her hatred of Amandine's father onto her daughter's body.
Her defence team had earlier argued that other adults who would have seen Amandine -- ex-partners of Pissarra, friends, neighbours, doctors, social workers, teachers or magistrates -- needed to share responsibility for what happened.
One of the mother's lawyers, Jean-Marc Darrigade, said earlier that while there was an indisputable individual responsibility on her part, there is also a collective responsibility.
He had asked the jurors to pronounce a fair, reasonable sentence, which would allow her to eventually return to society.