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7th February 2017
08:51am GMT

"a punishment in the middle of the night because he had urinated in bed."According to the AFP, an autopsy carried out on Monday afternoon revealed that Yanis' death was due to cardiac arrest but head injuries, attributed to one or more falls or to violence, were also noted. It is believed the boy's nose had also been broken. A case of on-going child-abuse is suspected in light of the autopsy findings. The child's mother (23) and step-father (30), who are both unemployed, have been married since August 2015, and have no other children. French investigators say that the young boy's step-father alerted emergency services after he discovered Yanis was unconscious. The couple are due to appear before prosecutors this morning.
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