Yes, they will remain in custody until the trial. French mother and partner held until trial for abandoning boys on roadside French mother and partner, arrested for abandoning two children on a roadside in Portugal, will remain in custody until their trial. The boys, aged four and five, were found crying in the evening beside a highway near Alcacer do Sal, about 100km south of Lisbon, on Tuesday. The mother and her companion, Marine R and Marc B, were taken into custody on Thursday, and the children were removed to Lisbon, where they will be placed in charge of a foster family until the case comes before a tribunal. The couple are accused of endangering the children and abandoning them, and the man faces an additional charge of aggravated assault. French mother and partner held until trial for abandoning boys on roadside (Transcribe the foregoing matter as far as
Original dispatch: French mum and partner held until trial after sons abandoned by road in Portugal