A teacher, a time suspected of having raped a four-year-old girl, was cleared by the courts in the context of a general dismissal almost five years after the facts, we learned on Wednesday from the Dijon parquet floor.
Accused of touching by the girl
“I went through five years of hell, for nothing,” said the teacher, quoted by the regional daily. The Public Good. In November 2016, the girl had recounted having been the victim of touching and had appointed this school teacher who was starting a replacement in her nursery school, located in
Genlis (Golden Coast).
The man, married and the father of a family, was then imprisoned for five months. In March, 2017, the investigative chamber of the Dijon Court of Appeal lifted his indictment and placed him under the status of assisted witness.
DNA analyzes had shown that a tiny stain of semen found in the panties of the little victim belonged to a member of the paternal line. The uncle, the grandfather and the father of the child had all been placed in police custody for a time. But the possibility of a transfer of DNA on the garment in the basket of soiled laundry could never be ruled out by the experts.
General dismissal for the teacher and parents
The general dismissal order issued by the examining magistrate, both towards the teacher and the parents of the girl, complies with the requisitions of the prosecution.
“It is very clearly a failure of the investigation and the investigation, despite the substantial means implemented to succeed,” admitted the prosecutor Eric Mathais, quoted by the daily. However, the case could not stop there, a child protection association, which had brought a civil action, having expressed its intention to appeal.