A couple of leaders of a social structure in Noirétable receiving minors was placed in police custody and the activity of their establishment suspended, after accusations of violence, sexual assault and rape, we learned. Thursday from concordant sources.
Arrested on Wednesday as part of a preliminary investigation entrusted to the Montbrison gendarmerie research brigade, the “couple’s police custody was extended on Thursday”, David Charmatz, the public prosecutor, told AFP. Republic of Saint-Etienne.
They welcomed children and adolescents placed by the social services
The respondents, spouses in their forties, who until then received children and adolescents entrusted by social services, are both suspected of intentional violence by a person in authority. The husband is also suspected of sexual assault and rape of minors under the age of 15, he added.
A dozen young people withdrawn in emergency
The ten children for whom they were responsible at the Place de Vie et d’Accueil “Les Bois noirs” were “urgently removed from the establishment on June 2, following reports from employees and complaints from parents and former boarders, some of whom are now adults, according to the prosecutor.
Suspicions of embezzlement of public funds
Questioned by AFP, the LR president of the Loire Departmental Council, Georges Ziegler, for his part confirmed that he had taken an “arrest of suspension of the activity” of this establishment which has been welcoming children and adolescents for a dozen years. ‘years.
The couple of leaders, employees of the association Les Bois noirs, which is chaired by the mother-in-law of the main defendant, is also suspected of having diverted part of the financing for their personal use (149 euros per day and per child) of child welfare.
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