Marina Sabatier - killed by her parents Eric Sabatier & Virginie Darras

AFP -- 11.09.2009 | 15:12

The body of a 8 years old girl, who died a month ago but whose parents had invented a scenario of abduction, was found on Friday by the French gendarmerie at Le Mans after 24 hours of research, according to a judicial source.

The father confessed in police custody having invented the story of abduction, said the prosecutor Joelle Rieutort.

"He confessed after the police pointed contradictions" and "fairly quickly said the abduction was a fake" she said to reporters.

Both parents were placed in custody.

The body of the little girl was found after her father's confession in a container in a warehouse belonging to the company where he works.

In custody, he ensured that the girl died in the first days of August of "natural death", he said his body had been kept in a freezer at the couple's previous home, says Ms. Rieutort.

"The autopsy will be conducted as soon as possible. There are no apparent signs of violence," she said.

The father alerted police Wednesday on the alleged disappearance of the girl. He claimed that he briefly left the child alone, asleep in his car on a fast food restaurant parking, just the time to pick up food with his 10 years old son.

Nearly 150 policemen were mobilized on Thursday and have been looking for the little girl.
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http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/09/marina-aged-8-found-dead-after-false.html

Who will this story 'give new hope to', I wonder? Bet the McCannics won't be rushing to cream all over this news item.

If it even makes it on to the Brit news, of course. Which it probably won't, with the excuse that "the nature of the story would only fuel hurtful and libellous thoughts" about a well-known famous and innocent family.

'He claimed that he briefly left the child alone, asleep in his car on a fast food restaurant parking, just the time to pick up food with his 10 years old son'

His poor son was made to get involved... how sick.

Great to see Prof M here posting :Theman:

Nooooo this one will be on ignore ,does'nt follow the party line.

Interesting that she had been dead for three weeks without anyone outside the family noticing.

Nice to see the prof is posting here !
:Hiya:

A freezer eh?


I hope the McCanns send a message of support to the mother like they do with the rest of them!

La maison de la famille de Marina, à Lavardin, dans la Sarthe. Marina's family home

Not exactly a "socially deprived" family that one would normally associate with such deceptive crimes against a child are they?

http://www.lepost.fr/article/2009/09/11/1691539_marina-a-ete-retrouvee-morte-ses-2-parents-en-garde-a-vue.html

Google translation:-

Marina's parents charged

13/09/2009 | 13:09 par Christophe Turgis

The parents of the girl have confessed in police custody that Marina had died early in August. They were charged with murder Saturday of a minor under 15, kidnapping, and habitual violent denunciation of imaginary facts. Both face life imprisonment.

The child abuse for many months, "has been a scene of violence in early August and was placed in the cellar (a previous home Ecommoy in the Sarthe, editor's note) and mother was found unconscious. "During the following weeks, parents have tried to conceal her body, "said deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Le Mans.

http://ouest.france3.fr/info/pays-de-la-loire/Les-parents-de-Marina-mis-en-examen--57135072.html

http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-societe/2009-09-13/le-mans-les-parents-de-marina-ecroues-et-mis-en-examen-pour-homicide/920/0/376797

Good heavens what that child must have gone through in her sad little life. Makes me ill thinking about it

Thank you Shnuffel for posting this. Nothing in uk papers yet, probably never will be.

[quote="Ambersuz"]A freezer eh?


Thats what i though FREEZER . thats right, placed there own dead daughter in a freezer .
and some posters on this forum , found that concept impossible .
As i keep saying theres nout so Queer as folk .
and sometimes real life is stranger than fiction , esp if your livelyhoods at stake

louiseh wrote:Thank you Shnuffel for posting this. Nothing in uk papers yet, probably never will be.

Oh yee of little faith:-

From Times Online
September 13, 2009

Parents who claimed daughter was kidnapped are charged with her murder

French social services came under fire today over their failure to save an eight-year-old girl whose parents allegedly beat her to death before hiding her body in a trunk full of cement.

France has been shocked by the torment inflicted on Marina Sabatier, whose body was found in a storeroom near Le Mans three days after Eric Sabatier, her father, reported that she had been abducted from his car as he bought their lunch.



Her apparent kidnapping made national headlines until Friday, when Sabatier, 37, and Virginie Darras, 30, his partner, told police that they had found Marina dead six weeks earlier and, in a panic, had hidden her body. On Saturday, they confessed to beating her and were charged with murder, abduction, violence against a minor and other offences.

Anger was added to shock when it emerged that two primary schools that Marina attended over the past year had alerted social services to her battered condition but investigations had been dropped.

Teachers reported that the girl, who had four half brothers and sisters, had suffered cuts and bruises. They also suspected that she was not being fed because she came to school with no snacks and finished the food on the plates of other children.

"We have the feeling that we served no purpose," said Jean-Luc Dubois, headmaster at the Coulans-sur-Gée primary school, who reported the girl's plight last April. "We had been vigilant since the beginning because we knew that she had been the object of a report from a neighbouring village."

The state prefect of the Sarthe department has ordered an inquiry into the apparent breakdown that led to the girl's death.

Local officials put down the failure to the family's frequent changes of address. They had moved house five times in two years, staying ahead of the social services. After the first complaint, in autumn last year, social workers accepted explanations from the family that Marina's wounds had been caused by a fall.

The couple, who have four other children from previous partners, moved to another village two weeks after Mr Dubois reported his school's suspicions last spring.

The case is the latest of several over the past two years which have exposed the authorities' failure to detect severe child abuse in apparently respectable French families. The Sabatiers' home villages, near the prosperous Loire valley, are far from the lawless urban ghettos that France usually associates with social breakdown.

Earlier this year, in the southern town of Millau, a seven-year-old boy was released from a house where he had been locked up in secret since he was born.

Roland Coutanceau, a psychiatrist and president of the French Mental Health Association, said that social services were under pressure to give parents the benefit of the doubt when they examined children with signs of abuse. "A bruise on the body of a child does not necessarily prove immediately that it is suffering ill treatment," he said.

Sabatier, who works for a removal firm, and his partner admitted beating Marina "in an especially brutal manner", said Chantal Moulin-Bernard, the prosecutor handling the case. The father had explained that they couple beat her because she was "greedy" and "always asking for food".

They locked Marina in a cellar one night and found her inanimate in the morning, she said.

They hid the body in a deep freeze at another site before putting it in a trunk and filling it with cement last week. When the other children asked where Marina was, they told them that she was on holiday at the seaside, the prosecutor said.

The couple face a maximum term of life imprisonment if they are convicted.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6832916.ece

I wonder what the Cadiver dogs , would make of there Car ?

Supprise supprise , i have not seen this story in the UK Media ,,dont want to put doubt in minds do we

News is starting to spread in the UK

From the Daily Mail

Parents who claimed their daughter was kidnapped are charged with her murder

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From the BBC

Parents 'dumped body in concrete'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8253393.stm

could somebody stick this on the sky forum
i cant get on ,
regards

and just when you think it couldn't get any worse, something like this is comes to light!

fizzbomb200 wrote:could somebody stick this on the sky forum
i cant get on ,
regards

I must say Sky News seem a little slow if not, rather reluctant to report on this story considering it is doing the rounds.

From The Telegraph

French parents accused of dumping daughter's body in concrete

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6184543/French-parents-accused-of-dumping-daughters-body-in-concrete.html

thanks for finding that

That poor child....did you see the house they lived in?

I wonder if Edgar will pick this up as this is common.....what he is suggesting is NOT!

This is terrible

That poor little girl, may she RIP and may her excuses for parents rot in hell

Sleep peacefully now, Marina xx

Girl's body encased in concrete
The parents of an eight-year-old girl whose body was found encased in concrete have been charged with her murder.
Marina Sabatier was found in a storeroom at her father's workplace in the city of Le Mans, France.
Police says that they believe the girl was beaten to death last month, with her body being hidden in a freezer before being covered in concrete.
Eric Sabatier, 37, and his partner Virginie Darras, 30, told officials that Marina had been abducted from their car whilst on a visit to a burger bar.
However, Sabatier subsequently changed his story on Friday, saying they had found his daughter dead from natural causes, and he hid the body in panic. Marina suffered from mild Downs Syndrome.
Both later admitted to beating the girl, and have been charged with murder, abduction and violence against a minor. They face life in prison if convicted.
'They beat Marina in an especially brutal manner, mainly because she was greedy and always asking for food', said state prosecutor Chantal Moulin-Bernard.
They locked Marina in a cellar one night and found her inanimate in the morning, the prosecutor said.
The pair are said to have hidden the girl's body in a freezer before placing her in a trunk and filling it with concrete, French authorities said. The trunk was found in a storeroom at Sabatier's place of work.
Darras and Sabatier's four other children were told Marina 'was on holiday at the seaside', Moulin-Bernard said. The children have since been placed in social care.
The case has sparked anger in France after it emerged that two primary schools had tipped off social services over bruises on Marina and her half-brothers and sisters.



R.I.P Marina

I wonder if the parents took the McCans as their example and thought the body would never be found. How many more children will die this way. It's just unbelievable. I don't think Mitchie would want this in the newspapers.

The Scotsman

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Concreted-girl39s-parents--held.5642991.jp

Irish Independent

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/social-services-failed-to-save-girl-later-found-encased-in-concrete-1885562.html

New Zealand Herald

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10597222

But still not reported by Sky News.