The DPJ of Quebec does not retain a report in the case of the 2-year-old girl for whom her educator and the director of her daycare service feared that she had been circumcised.
“At the request of the parents, the director of youth protection (DPJ) of the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale wishes to inform that he has not retained any report concerning the highly publicized situation of the child presumed victim of an excision”, can we read in the press release sent on Friday.
“The medical evaluation reveals a completely normal physical development in the child, without any anomaly or malformation, is it also written. Moreover, his psychomotor development is beyond expectations according to age. The parents showed great collaboration throughout the investigation process. »
Conversely, the Commission des droits de la personne et de la jeunesse is continuing its own investigation which “does not relate to what the child could have suffered, but to the response of the DYP to the report made by the staff” of the daycare,” says Halimatou Bah, Communications Advisor.
According to the story offered on a daily basis The gallery, the educator and the director of the daycare service became concerned after noticing during a diaper change that the child’s genitalia were not usual. When they expressed their concerns to the DPJ, they were told, they said, that the case was too delicate to be taken care of.
Lionel Carmant, Minister Delegate for Health and Social Services, said at the beginning of May that he was “shocked” by the testimonies read in The gallery. His team had let it be known that he “immediately contacted the national director of youth protection” so that she could take charge of this file.