Child’s agony
NZPA Metz, France An autopsy is being done on Valerie, who died after being locked in a cupboard on Christmas Eve. She was 10. and retarded. Valerie cried when she was not given any Christmas presents. The mother and her lover told the police that as a punishment they had locked Valerie in a cupboard — where she died of starvation after 10 days of suffering. Her emaciated body, covered in bruises, weighed a mere 20kg. The Metz police have charged her mother, Monique Orzechowski. aged 27, and her lover, Jean-Marie Fuchs, aged 22, with manslaughter.
On Christmas Eve Madeleine and Christophe, two of Orzechowski’s other children, were given their presents, but there was nothing for Valerie. She started crying and asked why she was being ignored. “We decided to punish her because she bothered us,” the couple said.
In her cupboard Valerie must have been able to hear the sounds of merrymaking by the rest of the family over Christmas, the police said.
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