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A FRENCH mum who subjected her 13-year-old daughter to years of unimaginable torture before starving her to death has been sentenced to life in prison.
Sandrine Pissarra, 54, was convicted on Friday by a court in Montpellier of inflicting acts of “torture and barbarity” on her daughter, Amandine, who died of a heart attack in 2020.
Amandine, who weighed just 28 kilograms (62 pounds) at the time of her death, had endured years of horrific abuse, including beatings, starvation, and being locked in a windowless storage room for weeks.
She had lost several teeth, her hair had been ripped out, and she suffered from severe muscle loss and septicaemia, a medical report revealed.
Pissarra, described by prosecutors as a “domestic tyrant” and “executioner,” must serve at least 20 years before being eligible for parole.
Her ex-partner, Jean-Michel Cros, 49, was also sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the abuse.
He was convicted of depriving Amandine of care, a crime the court branded “cowardly collaboration.”
Unlike Pissarra, Cros is ineligible for parole.
“I want to apologize to my children, that’s all,” Pissarra said in a final statement.
Meanwhile, Cros said: “I have nothing to add.”
HOUSE OF HORRORS
Prosecutor Jean-Marie Beney laid bare the chilling extent of Amandine’s suffering.
He described how she was beaten with brooms, punched, kicked and subjected to relentless verbal and physical abuse from a very young age.
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