London, Nov 29 (ANI): A three year old boy got killed after his father allegedly shut him in a washing machine and switched it on as a 'punishment'.
Christophe Champenois, has been accused of bundling little Bastien's naked body into the machine at the family home near Paris and running a cold wash cycle.
It is believed that he wanted to punish the boy after he flushed a classmate's drawings down the toilet at playgroup.
Bastien's mother Charlene had released her son and ran to a neighbour's house with his limp body in her arms, claiming that he had fallen down the stairs.
"I took him in my arms like a broken doll. I felt the last beat of his heart. Charlene didn't move. She was red all over. She didn't understand he was dead," the Sun quoted Alice, the neighbour as saying.
The parents initially stuck to their story about an accident on the stairs.
However, their five-year-old daughter revealed that her brother was locked inside the washing machine, and that it was not the first time it had happened.
Sometimes the tot was locked inside a closet for around two hours, she claimed.
Christophe has been charged with murder of a minor, while Charlene Champenois was charged with not preventing a crime and not assisting a person in danger. (ANI)
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