New trial of maltreatment in the children's home
20.01.2010
Just one, the Court of Bobigny relaxait two former educators and the former Director of the centre départemental home children and families (CDEF), suspected one of ill-treatment of children, the other to have condoned or even bonded their practices. Facts dating back to 2007, in a structure of emergency of Villepinte. The public prosecutor of Bobigny appealed the acquittal and the record back even today in the Court of appeal of Paris. For a new trial which restores to the personal and the unions still mobilized against "the law of silence", the hope that "facts proven, and even partly recognized, are also by justice". The humiliating punishments psychologists and educators about slaps, cold showers, confinement and other humiliating punishments inflicted several children villepintois home. Young placed there on court decisions and particularly fragile. Employees who had denounced these "educational practices", they had witnessed or that the children told them in interviews, "many of those who knew hiding eyes and were experiencing pressures for nothing out." Some resisted, decided to report the "incidents" to the departmental authorities and the police, since "the hierarchy met by inertia." Or even blame or moral pressure, according to FO of personal health and public services Union, accompanying since these agents. Eight months of investigation, conducted in 2008 by the minors brigade, had resulted in the indictment of three persons, relaxed in January 2009. They have since changed function, the home was closed and delocalized, but the appeal of the Prosecutor's Office reactivation charges that three more mobilized officers hope to see finally recognized. Among them, there is l. specialized ex-psychologue of the Villepinte CDEF. Two years ago, his approach was eventually turn against it. Pressure, harassment, causing a depression and push it to resign. It will be necessary however to desist. "What I criticized the then Director of administration, and it is to have not wanted to take things in hand," sighs the young woman, now stationed in a specialized hospital. In the margins of the judicial inquiry, the Ddass it had also launched an investigation and referred a number of "shortcomings", linked to the instability of the educational teams. According to the CDEF FO, the trial on appeal may at least allow to "strengthen the vigilance of the guardianship authorities, so that the mission of child protection is actually insured."
Le Parisien
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