Parents abandon brothers aged five and three after taking them to Portugal and leaving them in the w

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Parents abandon brothers aged five and three after taking them to Portugal and leaving them in the woods blindfolded

Daily Mail
By PERKIN AMALARAJ
21 May 2026



Two young brothers have been abandoned by their parents in a wooded area in Portugal and left blindfolded.

Barthelemy and Zacharie, aged five and three respectively, were found wandering down a rural road between the towns of Alcacer do Sal and Comporta on Tuesday evening at around 7pm.

A local couple, Eugenia and Artur Quintas, found the boys with nothing more than a change of clothes, two pieces of fruit and two bottles of water on them when they were found on the N235 road.

Artur said: 'They were crying, they were terrified. They were crying and calling for their father.'

He added that they were both covered in dirt and bruises, and one had hurt his knee. Neither boy had any identifying documents on them.

The Quintases took the young children to their home and called the police, who quickly arrived and took them to Setúbal Hospital for a full health assessment. There, they were given a clean bill of health.

A toxicology report revealed the boys had not been drugged by the parents. 

After questioning them, they were able to figure out that the boys had actually come from France.

The boys told authorities that their parents told them they were going to play a game to 'drive away the devil'.

Their mother, 41-year-old Marine, and stepfather, Marc, blindfolded them and took them to a wooded area, before telling them they could only remove their eye covers once they had found a knife the couple had buried in the ground and used it to cut them off.

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[berdie]

I don't know what crazy, evil loons would do such a thing.

[Wingnut]

Sounds like their parents were trying to show them survival skills.

[Bigun]

I don't know what crazy, evil loons would do such a thing.

Nor do I @berdie

[Right_in_Virginia]

Thank God these little ones didn't get separated. 

[mountaineer]

Marine Rousseau, a sexologist, has abandoned her two sons, aged 3 and 5, with their eyes blindfolded, at the roadside in Portugal with the complicity of Marc Ballabriga, her deranged antisemitic partner, ex-gendarme and ex-convict...

https://twitter.com/mmacadamm/status/2057815739780759559

[Idiot]

Marine Rousseau, a sexologist, has abandoned her two sons, aged 3 and 5, with their eyes blindfolded, at the roadside in Portugal with the complicity of Marc Ballabriga, her deranged antisemitic partner, ex-gendarme and ex-convict...

https://twitter.com/mmacadamm/status/2057815739780759559

Here's hoping the kids find new parents.