A seven-year-old boy lived alone for two years in an unheated flat after his mother abandoned him to go live with her boyfriend. The child lived alone from the ages of seven until nine, in a council flat in Nersac, a village on the outskirts of Angouleme in the west of France. According to French media, the boy’s mother, 39, had moved three miles away to live with her new partner. During the two-year period the boy had to live without hot water, heating or electricity, washing himself in cold water and using sleeping bags and blankets to keep warm. The only way he would eat was by stealing tom…
