He was beaten with a belt, had to kneel in dry rice grains and eventually died after a fatal kick to the head by his own mother. 9-year-old Raul hardly knew love in his short life. On Thursday, his mother and stepfather had to answer for his gruesome death in the Ghent court of assizes. They constantly shifted the blame to each other. An annoyed chairwoman Pascale Clauw mercilessly targeted their lies.
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