Abused children in Pas-de-Calais: four ministers seize their respective inspections
The Ministers of Justice, Education, Health and Charlotte Caubel, the Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, in charge of Children, decided to enter their respective inspections to investigate the couple suspected of having abused their ten children in Noyelles-sous-Lens (Pas-de-Calais), said the latter on Twitter.
“Today, Éric Dupond-Moretti, Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, Pap N’Diaye, Minister of National Education and Research, François Braun, Minister of Health and Prevention and Charlotte Caubel, Secretary of State to the Prime Minister in charge of Children have decided to seize the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ), the Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) and the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) to carry out these investigations”, specifies a press release from his ministry.
Following a report from the eldest of ten siblings, aged 24, the police discovered Tuesday, August 30 in a dwelling in the town, two children aged 2 and 5, attached to high chairs in a “deplorable state of hygiene”, according to Thierry Dran, public prosecutor of Béthune.
The rest of the siblings of ten children aged 4 months to 24 years, including seven minors, would also have suffered a number of abuses, according to one of them. According to Bryan, 21, the children were being “beaten with sticks, kicked with safety shoes, whipped”.
A report in 2013
The parents, a 44-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, are suspected by the courts of “subtraction by ascendant from legal obligations” and “violence of a minor aged 15 by ascendant”, without ITT (total incapacity for work) .
Last week, Charlotte Caubel commented on the situation on BFM-TVclaiming that the family had already been the subject of a report in 2013. been set up, but that the family was not at all collaborative,” she added.
She also traveled to the department on Monday, announcing in particular the creation of a reinforced monitoring committee in the Pas-de-Calais in terms of child protection.