For reporting child abuse, new ban on practicing for Toulouse child psychiatrist
The decision fell at the end of January 2023. The National Disciplinary Chamber of the Order of Physicians sentenced the child psychiatrist, Eugénie Izard, again to a 3-month ban on practice from April 1 for “immigration”.
Doctor Eugénie Izard herself announced, Thursday, January 26, 2023, her new conviction: “For your information, I am informing you of my new conviction received today at 3 months ban on the practice of medicine including 1 suspended from April 1 for interfering in family affairs for having made a report to the president of the county council.”
In 2015, the Toulouse child psychiatrist had already been banned from practicing for three months, this time for reporting suspicions of abuse to the public prosecutor and the juvenile judge. A penalty for “interference in family affairs“pronounced by the Order of Physicians in December 2020 and canceled by the Council of State in May 2022. On November 24, 2022, Dr Eugénie Izard was again auditioned for the eighth time.
And yet underlines the interested party, “pursuant to article 226-13 of the Code of social action and families“, reporting to the authorities executed under the conditions applied to this article cannot engage the civil, criminal or disciplinary liability of its authorunless it is established that he did not act in good faith.”
In support of Doctor Izard, the Union of General Medicine (SMG) and the National Union of Young General Practitioners (SNJMG) had asked in a press release “that the Order of Physicians can no longer take up complaints and condemn a doctor who has made a report for suspicion of a child in danger”.
A position also shared by the UFML-S doctors’ union. “Their convictions contribute to frightening the entire medical profession who should on the contrary be in the front line of the protection of children”indicates in a press release this collective.
The origin of this case: a double report for suspicion of abuse on one of his 8-year-old patients.
Presuming abuse on the part of the father, the Toulouse child psychiatrist had translated a first report in October 2014 to the public prosecutor, then a second in March 2015 again to the prosecutor, but also to the children’s judge responsible for the protection of the girl. . The father of the child then reacted by suing Dr Eugénie Izard before the bar association council.
Eugénie Izard already announces that “again appeal to the Council of State to quash the judgment for “error of law” and disproportionate sentence.”