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SETUBAL, Portugal (AFP) — A court in Portugal on Saturday remanded in custody a French woman and her partner, accused of abandoning her two young boys — aged four and five — on a roadside in the south of the country.
The court in the southern port city of Setubal ordered the 41-year-old woman and the 55-year-old man to be placed in pretrial detention for the crimes of child endangerment and abandonment after a two-day hearing.
The man was also charged with aggravated assault against one of the children, the court said after questioning the couple.
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