Frenchman, 80, freed after year in wife's laundry prison

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2010-08-01 23:56

Story here. Excerpt:

'ARROU, France (AFP) - An 80-year-old Frenchman was recovering in a state of shock in hospital on Saturday after being freed from a year locked in a laundry room by a wife half his age and her alleged lover.

French paramilitary police rescued the unnamed man from his home in the village of Arrou, southwest of Paris, on Wednesday, blinded, malnourished and physically abused by the ordeal at the hands of his own family.
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"The victim suffered violence and ill-treatment," local gendarme commander Bruno Arviset told journalists. "The man ate twice a day, mostly pastries that were past their sell-by date."

His wife, 45, was jailed on Saturday pending trial after being charged with physical abuse, illegal detention and taking advantage of a vulnerable person, a judicial source said.'

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maybe a charge of jay walking.

kinda like here when they rape children and get
charged w/ something minor.

odd how few studies on the subject.

she'll get several days for this, for sure.
that will teach her a lesson.

bet she will still get the house, car, $$$
etc. etc etc in the pending divorce.

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Submitted by daveinga on Mon, 2010-08-02 00:55

"The man ate twice a day, mostly pastries that were past their sell-by date."

Okay, that's interesting and I guess one would get sick of nothing but pastries after a year, and that's obviously not a balanced diet, but my initial reaction was "yummy" - my bad.

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Submitted by MR on Mon, 2010-08-02 16:40