Tot dies after being shoved into a washing machine for being naughty
AN angelic boy of three died after being stuffed into a washing machine by his father who then started the cold wash cycle. Christophe Champenois forced naked Bastien into the machine and let it run for several minutes after he misbehaved at nursery.
Mum Charlene, 25, rescued Bastien and dashed around to a neighbour named Alice and told her he had fallen down the stairs.
The neighbour said: “I picked him up and his limbs were as loose as a rag doll. I felt his heart beat for the last time and then he died.” Bastien is said to have thrown a classmate’s drawing down a toilet that day. He died of multiple injuries to his head and body.
His sister Maud, five, later told their neighbours in Meaux near Paris her dad had repeatedly abused Bastien, once locking him in a cupboard for two hours and also leaving him on a balcony wrapped in a blanket. A police spokesman said a 33-year-old man arrested for the murder of a minor will be in custody until a trial date can be set.
The man’s wife was arrested for non-assistance of a person in danger, the spokesman added
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