Seven years after Laly’s death in Périgueux, the Bordeaux Court of Appeal sentenced its former teacher to a four-month suspended prison sentence for “manslaughter”this Tuesday, May 3, learned France Blue Perigord. On January 8, 2015, the eight-year-old girl was defenestrated by another student in her class at the Sacré-Coeur private school in Périgueux.
The teacher had been released during the trial at first instance, before the criminal court of Angoulême in Charente, but the prosecution had appealed. The prosecutor had highlighted the responsibility of the teacher, who had been absent for a few seconds from this specialized class welcoming children with behavioral disorders, the time to look for sheets.
The Court of Appeal retains the serious fault
One of his students, considered “psychotic” had then pushed the young Laly, suffering from trisomy, by the window, making her fall five meters. She had died of her injuries. But the court had justified its decision at first instance by “the absence of manifest fault”.
At the appeal trial, under the eyes of the little girl’s family, the Advocate General had requested this time three months in prison suspended. The teacher reaffirmed that she did not “heard nothing”. She had also not been made aware of the past acts of the young boy in question, who had already pushed a girl from a balcony in 2013. The Bordeaux Court of Appeal finally decides in its judgment that the teacher has committed a serious fault, which put little Laly at risk of a particularly serious nature.