BEIJING, Sept. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- A Frenchman went on trial lately accused of killing his three-year-old son by putting him in a washing machine, according to media reports on Wednesday.
During the first day of his murder trial, the father, Christophe Champenois claimed he had no memory of the events on November 25, 2011, when the son Bastien died.
It was Champenois himself who called emergency services in the town of Germigny-l'Eveque, east of Paris, saying he had a "small problem" as his son had fallen down the stairs.
He added that he had given Bastien a bath to refresh him and that the toddler must have drowned because he had water coming out of his nostrils.
However the victim's older sister, then five, told the doctor: "Daddy put Bastien in the washing machine because he was naughty at school."
The child's mother Charlene Cotte, 29, said she saw Champenois put Bastien in the washing machine and turn it on.
(Agencies)
