A childminder was found guilty of violence against minors by the Libourne court on March 15. She cared for children with disabilities.
A woman “dangerous for society” according to the lawyers for the civil party. On March 15, a childminder appeared before the court in Libourne, Gironde. She was tried for acts of child abuse. Two of them are disabled. As reported South Westrelayed by West Francethe 48-year-old woman was accused of having administered slapsof the butt kicking or spanking, punishments to the children she kept. Witnesses also reported violent gestureslike that of maintain faces little ones on the plates in order to force them to eat.
So many terrible acts that have been confirmed both by the child victims of violence and by those around the childminder, including her children, a neighbor and her ex-companion. “I have, perhaps, sometimes jostled them. If I have hurt, I apologize”, said the defendant at the helm. The defense for its part tried to convince the court, explaining that the memories of the children could be questioned, report our colleagues. Despite a request for release from her lawyers, the forties received a sentence of 12 months suspended sentence and one ban on exercising a professional activity or volunteer involving habitual contact with minors for two years.
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In 2021, another childminder also received a suspended prison sentence for abusing a child she was babysitting. It was the child’s mother who reported it after discovering injuries on her child’s body. Not convinced by the excuse given by the nanny, she takes her child to the doctor, who confirms a slap in the face as well as a hold of the child against a mattress. “I was tired, I slapped, I lost my patience… Only one slap… I had been in depression since the birth of my eleven month old child at the time”had ended up admitting the maternal assistant, who had wanted to hide the truth from the parents of the child by “shame” of his gesture.