42 pupils of a Talmudic school taken into care by child welfare after accusations of child abuse

Forty-two students from the Talmudic school in Bussières (Seine-et-Marne), aged 12 to 18, were taken care of by child welfare (ASE), the department announced on Tuesday 1st. February. The day before, sixteen officials of this establishment had been placed in police custody, on suspicion of physical and psychological abuse.

This Jewish school accommodated about sixty students, mainly American and Israeli minors, according to the public prosecutor of Meaux. “Many minors of American and Israeli nationality who do not speak French” were welcomed “dyears of abusive conditions: confinement, confiscation of identity documents, degraded living conditions, acts of abuse, lack of access to education and care and without the possibility of returning to their families”, she detailed.

ESA “cared for 42 children aged 12 to 18 who do not have parental authority on French territory, as part of an emergency administrative reception over five days”, said the department of Seine-et-Marne. “At the end of these five days, these young people will either return to their parents or be entrusted to the ASE by judicial decision.” These young ones “are accommodated in a boarding school made available by the National Education, and the association La Croix-Rouge takes care of the educational supervision of young people, the organization of meals and the management of daily life”.