two school directors indicted for failure to report abuse

A 3-year-old girl, victim of “frequent violence”, was killed in September in Conches-en-Ouches. His mother and stepfather were quickly indicted.

Four months after the death of a 3-year-old girl in Conches-en-Ouches (Eure), the investigation is progressing. Two school directors were indicted for failure to report mistreatment, the Evreux public prosecutor’s office reported on Monday January 15. The two teachers concerned are “the director of the nursery school where the little girl was educated, as well as the director of the primary school where her older brother (aged 6) was educated, also a victim of abuse”, according to the public prosecutor of Evreux, Rémi Coutin. They were placed under judicial supervision “with a ban on coming into contact with the others indicted in this case”.

The principal of the girl’s school had been suspended “as a precautionary measure”in September, by the rectorate of the Normandy academy, which had announced “an administrative investigation in order to shed light on the chain of reporting of facts by the National Education services”. The pupil “was absent from school all week” before his death, the prosecution said.

The director speaks of a lack of “time”

During her police custody in December, the director admitted “that she said to herself that it was necessary to make a report” but “did not do it, in particular because she did not have the time. The director disputes his responsibility”declared the prosecutor on Monday.

The little girl’s mother and stepfather have already been indicted for murder of a minor at the end of September and imprisoned. When he arrived at the Rouen University Hospital, the child had multiple hematomas of different ages on his “the face, the four limbs, the thorax, the back”according to the prosecution. “The investigating judge will question the fact that the situation of this little girl, victim of regular violence, was not reported. Neither the prosecution, nor the gendarmerie, nor the social assistance services in childhood had not been informed”the prosecutor emphasized.