
Child abuse is something most parents can’t begin to wrap their heads around. Tragically, it happens more often than people would like to think. One mom recently was sentenced after starving her teen daughter to death for looking like her father.
Amandine, 13, died in August 2020 in Montblanc, France. Reportedly, the teenager suffered from extreme muscle and weight loss and septicemia. Her mother, Sandrine Pissarra, locked her in a storage room and withheld food for weeks – and now, she has learned her fate.
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The mom was sentenced for starving her daughter to death.
On January 24, Pissarra, 54, was sentenced to life in prison, France 24 reported. She must serve at least 20 years before she can be considered for parole. The verdict was the maximum sentence for the crime; Pissarra has been in police custody since May 2021.
Amandine weighed 62 pounds when she died.
At the time of her death on August 6, 2020, Amandine weighed 62 pounds at 5 feet, 1 inch tall, Metro reported. The teen’s face was swollen, she had lost several teeth, and she was covered in infected wounds. Additionally, her hair was pulled out.

Pissarra claimed her daughter had eating disorders.
After Amandine’s death, Pissarra claimed the teen suffered from eating disorders. She said her daughter ate a piece of sugar, fruit puree, and a protein drink on the day she died, per France 24. Afterward, she said the 13-year-old allegedly started vomiting and stopped breathing.
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Later, she confessed the abuse happened because the teen ‘looked like her father.’
When Pissarra was asked why she treated her daughter so poorly, she said it was “because she looked like her father,” Metro reported. Pissarra, a mom of eight, also called herself a “monstrous mother.” Additionally, a psychiatric assessment of Pissarra concluded she sought to “transfer her hatred” of Amandine’s father to her daughter, per France 24.
Pissarra’s former partner was sentenced.
Pissarra’s former boyfriend, Jean-Michel Cros, also was sentenced in relation to Amandine’s death. Cros received 20 years in prison without parole for her suffering under his joint care, Metro reported. Although the sentence was harsher than the 18 years requested by prosecutors, he faced up to 30 years behind bars.