Cheating wife locks husband, 80, in laundry in France for 12 months!!!

A cheating wife kept her 80-year-old husband imprisoned in a locked laundry for a year while she lived with her younger lover. The frail man was subjected to regular beatings at the house in Arrou, near Paris. He survived on stale bread and old pastries. The 45-year-old wife and her boyfriend also pillaged more than $400,000 from the husband's bank account.

The man became blind during the ordeal. He was only discovered after the wife's nine-year-old child from an earlier marriage told neighbours there was a 'smelly old man who stole food' locked up in his house. When police arrived at the couple's home, the wife initially claimed her husband was abroad, deputy prosecutor Fanny Floquet said.

She added: 'But the wife finally led them to a small laundry room in the house away from rooms used to live in and opened a locked door in front of the gendarmes.'

Local gendarme commander Bruno Arviset said: 'The victim suffered violence and ill-treatment.

'The man ate twice a day, mostly pastries that were past their sell-by date.'
A council source in Arrou said when the wife applied to marry the older man three years the mayor intially refused to conduct the ceremony because he was suspicious of her motives.

One added: 'The wife was a very strange woman. People round here thought it odd that she was married to an old man while living with her lover in the same house.' The woman, who can not be named for legal reasons, is being held in custody charged with physical abuse, illegal detention and taking advantage of a vulnerable person. Her lover and another adult son have been released on bail after being charged with complicity with kidnapping and failing to report the abuse.

Social services have taken her younger child into care, judicial sources said.

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