A 3-year-old girl died during the night from Saturday to Sunday. While his mother and stepfather are suspected of violence, the director of the school where the child was educated was suspended “as a precautionary measure”, the rectorate announced this Tuesday.
“The rectorate of the Normandy academy has decided to suspend the director of the nursery school as a precautionary measure and to launch an administrative investigation in order to shed light on the chain of reporting of the facts by the National Education services” , indicates the rectorate in a press release. According to Évreux prosecutor Rémi Coutin, the little girl, whose mother and stepfather were indicted for murder of a minor and placed in pre-trial detention, “was absent from school the entire week preceding the events”.
Multiple hematomas
Emergency services were alerted during the night from Saturday to Sunday by the parents of the little girl, who died after arriving at Rouen University Hospital at 1:53 a.m. She had multiple hematomas of different ages on “her face, all four limbs, thorax, back”.
“The investigating judge will question the fact that the situation of this little girl, victim of regular violence, was not reported. Neither the public prosecutor’s office, nor the gendarmerie nor the child welfare services had been informed,” said Rémi Coutin.
His brother entrusted to child welfare
The older brother, aged six, was present on the evening of the incident and also suffered violence. He was handed over to child welfare services. The rectorate specified that a psychological listening unit was made available to students and adults at the Conches-en-Ouche nursery school (Eure), where the little girl was educated in the middle section.
“Faced with this terrible tragedy, rector Christine Gavini expresses her great emotion and expresses her immense sadness,” added the rectorate.