Father who fed kids only Cola jailed

The father of two boys, aged three and four, has been jailed in France for feeding them nearly exclusively on CocaCola, the children’s lawyer said.

The father, who can “neither read, nor write, nor count, doesn’t realise the seriousness of the situation and spent all his welfare money on alcohol,” Carole Papon, a representative of the association French Victims 87, said on Wednesday.

Within a few days of welfare payments being made “the family had nothing to eat. They only had Coca-Cola to drink,” she said. The father, described as violent towards his wife and children, was jailed for three months in Limoges. The eldest boy had to have seven sugarrotten teeth removed, and the younger one does not speak. Both were taken into care where they have been introduced to meat and vegetables.