Two arrested after young French boys found abandoned on Portuguese roadside

Two young children under five were abandoned on a roadside in Portugal, found distressed and alone by a passing driver.

On a Tuesday afternoon in southern Portugal, a passing driver came upon two small boys — both under five — crying alone by the roadside near Alcacer do Sal, their backpacks holding food and water but nothing to say who they were. They had been missing from their home in eastern France for ten days, their father's alarm having set a pan-European search in motion. A woman and a man, believed to be their mother and stepfather, were arrested days later outside a café in Fatima, facing charges that speak to something darker than a single moment of abandonment. The story of these two children is, at

Two arrested after young French boys found abandoned on Portuguese roadside

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