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A French woman, Sandrine Pissarra was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for starving to death her daughter, who died of a heart attack in 2020 at the age of 13 after years of abuse.
Pissarra, 54, was convicted of inflicting acts of torture and barbarity against her daughter Amandine at the trial in the southern city of Montpellier.
She must serve a minimum of 20 years behind bars before being eligible for parole, according to the terms of the sentence.
The verdict, the maximum sentence for the crime and in line with what prosecutors demanded, was agreed by a panel of three professional judges and six members of the public serving as a jury.
For Pissarra, “domestic tyrant, dictator of the home, executioner of Amandine, there can only be one sentence — a life term with a minimum of 20 years served in prison,” said the prosecutor, Jean-Marie Beney.
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