• WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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    21 hours ago

    Paris police are examining more than 100 allegations of mistreatment, physical violence and rape of children as young as three by school monitors during lunch breaks, nap times and after-school activities, prosecutors have confirmed.

    “We have investigations under way in 84 preschools, about 20 primary schools and about 10 daycare centres,” said Paris’s top prosecutor, Laure Beccuau. Lawyers said the investigations included the alleged rape of children as young as three and four years old.

    Parents’ groups said they had fought for years for allegations to be taken seriously. They said failures in the recruitment process and checking of school monitors had allowed abuse to continue.

    HOLY SHEET!!! How TF is something that serious allowed to grow into that large of a problem?!? Seems like a LOT more people than just the currently accused need to be investigated - likely including the investigators themselves.

      • General_Effort@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        On second look:

        Accusations against school monitors reported by parents across France include children being screamed at, pushed, having their hair pulled, being denied food, forced to eat until they vomited and being sexually assaulted or raped.

        That’s actually believable. Untrained people lose their temper and assault kids, but there are only a few cases of rape.

        Quick google says that France completely outlawed assault on children only in 2019, though schools had been instructed not to use such punishments in 1991. Systemic failures to correct the monitors seem unsurprising.

    • lath@piefed.social
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      19 hours ago

      The push for numbers. The top likes big, beautiful numbers, so the mid pushes on down to get big, beautiful numbers -reality be damned!

      Once a job turns into pleasing the above, the work itself is neglected. Find a way to get rid of ass kissing in the workplace and the world will be a better place.

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      17 hours ago

      You should read The Franklin Cover Up by state senator John DeCamp.

      This happened in the 80s in the US with implications linking to George HW Bush