six and twelve months suspended sentence requested against the two former employees

The defendants are being prosecuted for intentional physical and psychological violence, without incapacity, against nine children in total in the nursery located in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, in the suburbs of Lille. The decision is being deliberated until October 7.

Six and 12 months of suspended prison sentences were requested on Monday, September 23, against two former employees of a People&Baby nursery tried in Lille for violence against children. The prosecution requested a six-month suspended prison sentence for the former nursery director, 48, prosecuted for violence against three children. A twelve-month suspended prison sentence was requested for the former nurse, 35, accused of violence against eight children. The prosecution also asked the court to order a five-year ban on practicing for the two defendants.

The defendants are being prosecuted for intentional, physical and psychological violence, without incapacity, against nine children in total in the nursery located in Villeneuve-d’Ascq (Nord). The civil parties describe deprivation of meals, humiliation, isolation and some suspect physical abuse. The trial took place in the wake of the release of the book The Ogres by Victor Castanet, an investigation that denounces the “low cost” model of several groups of private daycare centers. The decision is postponed until October 7.

Faced with a packed courtroom at the start of the hearing, the defense lawyers had requested an adjournment, denouncing a “media steamroller”The court decided to continue the proceedings, considering that it is “time to judge this case”while granting a closed hearing at the request of civil parties. “Today was not the People&Baby trial”insisted Fatima En-Nih, lawyer for a former employee, a nurse, at the end of the hearing: “There was no question of making these two the fuses of an entire system that was being denounced”.

“What was pointed out was the lack of training, perhaps fatigue,” reported Florent Mereau, lawyer for the civil parties. The defendants “contest the facts with which they are accusedhammered Blandine Lejeune, They are devastated.” “We have children who develop psychomotor disorders, behavioral disorders, who find themselves with developmental delays (…) sometimes by two years,” he said. before the hearing, lawyer Alexandre Schmitzberger. The two women are suspected of having adopted “attitudes and gestures unsuitable for caring for a young child”the court recalled on Monday.