Two little girls, aged three and six, were tortured and starved by their own mother along with her new boyfriend, Mohamed, who is currently standing trial in Bobigny, in the multicultural Paris neighborhood of Seine-Saint-Denis. The mother defended the severe beating of one child, saying that “she is possessed by the devil.”

The mother and her boyfriend are charged with “torture, acts of barbarity, violence, deprivation of care and corruption of a minor.” Prosecutors say they carried out the traumatic acts against the children between December 2023 and May 2024 in the mother’s home in Seine-Saint-Denis.