Heartless mother left 7-year-old son in cold apartment for two years where he lived on stolen tomatoes to run off with girlfriend
A heartless mother left her seven-year-old son in an unheated flat for two years, forcing him to live on stolen tomatoes to survive.
Alexandra Oger, 39, was convicted of leaving the boy behind while she moved in with her friend Charlene Muller, who is not charged with wrongdoing, and her two children.
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The child, now a teenager, was forced to fend for himself between 2020 and 2022, eating canned food and tomatoes stolen from a neighbor's planters.
He was stuck in a form of low-income housing France as HLM, in Nersac, Angoulême, which had no heating or electricity.
While he washed himself with cold water and lived on a helplessly empty refrigerator, he also had to curl up in three duvets at night, prosecutor Anne Medioni told a court. court.
It was only after the neighbor on the ground floor caught the child taking the tomatoes Police were called – just after the boy's ninth birthday.
The shocking story came to light earlier this month when the mother of two appeared in court in Angoulême accused of child abandonment. MailOnline reports.
The boy's older brother lived with their father.
The 39-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison, six months of which were suspended while wearing an ankle monitor, for endangering the public. health and the safety of a minor by abandoning him.
Oger claimed that she occasionally rode her scooter to a nearby grocery store to buy food for her child.
The French woman also told the court she was a “good mother” and did not abandon her son.
But her mobile phone records showed she spent most of the time three miles away in Sireuil.
Oger stopped her neighbors were mistaken and that the mobile data was inconclusive as she “often forgot and lost her phone”.
Passing sentence, Judge Ancelin Nouaille told the heartless mother: “The evidence is overwhelming. You failed your son.”
There was nothing to indicate that anything was wrong
School principal
Police are still questioning the headteacher and staff at the local school – just ten minutes away from the freezing flat – to find out why no one has raised any concerns in all this time.
The primary school headmistress told MailOnline: “He was always very polite and presentable and very good at school.
'He's gone now and no longer a student.
“There was nothing to indicate that anything was wrong, otherwise we would have raised the alarm.
“The mother was sometimes out of school and came to parents' evenings, but there was nothing unusual.”
Meanwhile, the abandoned child and his older siblings appear in posts on their mother's bizarre social media feeds.
But while her son lived on his own, she shared photos of the children she co-parented with Muller, but not of her own two boys.
Her online biography reads: “My family, my happiness is all that matters. I love you very much.”
FAMILY HISTORY
Oger has also posted photos of himself with Muller, and it is believed the two had a civil wedding ceremony, as a photo of wedding rings was shared in 2019.
The feed is also flooded with selfies of couples, most of them in some sort of romantic filter.
In one message written in the summer from 2018, Oger wrote: “Every family has one history. Welcome to ours,” to which Muller replied, “I love you, my love.”
Another message read: “Family is where life begins and where love never ends.”
The evidence is overwhelming. You failed your son.”
Judge Ancelin Nouaille
A neighbor opposite the second-floor apartment where the boy lived told the story MailOnline: “I've lived here for 18 years and she moved in around 2019, just before that Covid.
'She was here with two boys, an older one and a younger one, and then suddenly I stopped seeing the older boy and heard that he had gone to live with his father.
“I saw the little one very rarely. I don't go out much and I saw the mother come by every now and then with a bag of groceries.”
They continued, “I had no idea the boy was there alone.
“He was always so well looked after when I saw him and it's incredible to think that this happened.
“It was the ground floor neighbor who raised the alarm after they caught the boy stealing tomatoes from planters outside the flat.
“I haven't seen the mother for a while. The first time anyone knew anything was when the police came asking and now I know she has moved with her new partner, a woman, to a village 5km away.”
According to neighbors, the couple are now co-parenting three other children, one of whom was born via artificial insemination, it was claimed.
Partner Müller social media The family tree does not mention Oger's two children, but the other three are mentioned.
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