It’s a story that proves appearances are deceptive. A couple from Saint-Max, on the outskirts of Nancy, have been wrongly accused of mistreating their little girl.
It all started in 2012, when Sabrina and Yoan decided to take Louna, their 3-month-old daughter to the emergency room of a hospital in Nancy. Their daughter refuses to breastfeed and seems feverish. But once at the hospital, little Louane’s face is covered with plaques similar to a large hematoma. Other marks also appear on the rest of his body. Very quickly, Louane’s mother explains to the nursing staff that it is a symptom of a rare genetic and hereditary disease, angioedema from which she herself suffers. Skeptical, the doctors still decide to report a suspicion of mistreatment social services and the police.
It did not take more for the parents to find themselves in police custody and then indicted by an examining magistrate. They are accused of “willful violence on minors under 15 years of age with several aggravating circumstances”. Their daughter Louane is placed with a foster family, where she still lives today.
An expertise of two doctors even refutes the hypothesis of the genetic disease put forward by the parents, and confirms the mistreatment.
During a guard of a few hours, Sabrina and Yoan decide to give it a try and call in a specialist in the genetic disease in question, so that she can take a blood test in Louna. The analysis is formal, the little one was the victim of an attack of edema due to her illness and triggered by an infection. Judged in correctional last June 22, the two parents ended up being released. Three years after their visit to the emergency room, they will finally be able to recover custody of their daughter.
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