Paris investigators are looking into allegations non-teaching staff recruited by the city mistreated or abused children at 84 kindergartens and around 20 primary schools, a prosecutor said Sunday.<\/p>\n
Parents in the city have in recent months accused supervisors in charge of children outside the classroom — such as during recess or before pick-up — of mistreating, or physically or sexually abusing pupils in their care.<\/p>\n
The French capital’s new mayor, Emmanuel Gregoire, a Socialist who says he suffered sexual abuse himself during an after-school swimming programme in primary, has announced dozens of suspensions and pledged to stamp out such violence.<\/p>\n
“We have investigations underway in 84 preschools, around 20 primary schools, and about 10 daycare centres,” the city’s top prosecutor Laure Beccuau told the RTL broadcaster.<\/p>\n
Five people have been summoned to court, Beccuau added.<\/p>\n
Paris in the first three months of 2026 suspended 78 aides, including 31 suspected of sexual abuse, Gregoire has said.<\/p>\n
The mayor has vowed better vetting of people who apply to be recess monitors, and improved training for recruits, including on how to report suspected mistreatment.<\/p>\n
Auxiliary staff have demanded better staffing to ensure an adult is never left alone with a child, as well as more recognition and higher pay.<\/p>\n
A Paris court is next month to rule in the case of a 47-year-old school monitor accused of sexual assault on three girls and sexual harassment of nine others when they were aged 10 in 2024.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have called for the man, who was suspended in 2024, to be handed a 18-month suspended sentence, as well as being banned from working with children.<\/p>\n
An estimated 160,000 children suffer rape or sexual assault each year in France, according to an independent commission called CIVIISE. The abuser is a family member in eight out of 10 cases.<\/p>\n
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