He cried every time he needed to keep extracurricular and had abdomen aches, in response to his lawyer, so intense that they required journeys to the emergency room. Nevertheless, little Jean*, 4 years outdated, didn’t formally identify an attacker when investigators from the juvenile brigade interviewed him. Summoned following complaints which accrued in opposition to his former faculty chief, for sexual assault in opposition to college students he supervised, on the Alphonse-Baudin nursery faculty, in Paris, between September 2024 and April 2025, Jean merely stated that he “did not like snack time at college, as a result of he did not like his penis getting all onerous”. However his physique spoke, like that of eight different kids whose story was informed this Tuesday afternoon on the Paris judicial courtroom, for the primary public trial because the outbreak of the scandal of sexual violence in the capital’s extracurriculars.
David G., 36, a contract journalist, is accused of sexual assault on 5 kids, and sexual harassment in opposition to two fellow presenters. 4 households additionally accuse him of sexual assault on their kids and wished to look by direct summons. The occasions passed off between the beginning of the 2024 faculty 12 months and April 2025, when David G. was suspended. The kids recount pell-mell that the person would have “touched their genitals regardless of a refusal”, made “guillis on the willy” within the canteen, one other recounts that David G. touched her buttocks with a spoon within the library, one other that somebody touched her “pussy” and “buttocks”.
“He cuddles me”
However past their phrases, which for nearly all kids designate the facilitator in a reasonably clear method, it’s their physique that expresses itself. Anne, says her mom, has problem going to the bathroom. She has assaults to keep away from going there, and has developed encopresis and enuresis, which means she defecates and urinates frequently on herself, although she was clear earlier than the occasion. Each are sometimes related to psychological elements, together with sexual violence. For encopresisthe kid, touched in his intimacy, squeezes his buttocks for no motive, refrains from going to the stool voluntarily, then finally ends up “letting go” of every thing with out with the ability to management.
When her mom discovered that the host was suspected, she says she quietly questioned her daughter within the tub, asking “open questions”: “I simply requested her if she preferred him. She informed me “he cuddles me”. She added that he gave her “pimples”, in every single place, on her backbone, kisses on the mouth, that he liked her, that she liked him. She informed her therapist that he had “touched her weel.” » Later, we discovered that David G. knew very nicely what “button” meant. In listening to, he’ll say “ah sure she means “poutou””, underlines the little lady’s lawyer, Rebecca Royer, throughout her pleading.
“A baby doesn’t make up a authorized lie”
The lawyer doesn’t fail to listing how these little our bodies converse: the state of “uncontrollable disappointment” of Béatrice, a toddler who was beforehand sunny. Amélie’s “urinary retention” and Anne’s “urinary infections”. His sudden “tantrums” like Mirza, who places himself within the fetal place beneath the blanket and screams to himself after the revelations. Aurélie’s “purple and irritated penis”, which “wipes frantically, abruptly refuses to bathe, has fixed nightmares, lack of urge for food, which leads her to a health care provider, steady crying assaults, excessive fatigue, and really sexualized habits”.
“Mr. President, what you will have simply heard are their voices,” stated Rebecca Royer, inviting the Justice of the Peace to “consider” these kids, as a result of “at their age, a toddler doesn’t fabricate a judicial lie: he feels, he suffers, and generally he expresses. And what they categorical converges. David G. dedicated sexual assault on kindergarten kids for a number of months. » “This can’t be the results of likelihood, this convergence is the mark of a typical actuality,” she is going to say once more.
Entangled in its contradictions
Then again, the accused typically locked himself in his contradictions, and by no means stopped claiming that he was “not involved by the information”. “I all the time had my restrict, regardless of my clumsiness as an animator,” he says. When the decide questions him to know if he has ever “helped a toddler to pee”, reassuring him that even when the principles prohibited it, he might converse with out worry, such an act not being sexual assault, he blurted out: “That may be misinterpreted. The slightest factor can appear misplaced. »
Can all these kids’s signs be completely disconnected from David G.’s angle? The decide doesn’t lose sight of this speculation, which he’ll consistently underestimate. He criticized a mom for saying that her little one was not informed that “it is extremely severe what this facilitator did”: “it is very important current the factor with the presumption of innocence, in any other case it might affect the kid. »
A “nationwide electroshock”
David G. solely appears to have regrets concerning his two colleagues, whom he’s suspected of getting sexually assaulted. The 2 ladies, presenters, determined to file a grievance after listening to the accusations made in opposition to their ex-colleague concerning the kids.
“Once I discovered, an entire iceberg fell on me,” one among them stated. “I informed myself that if I wasn’t doing it for myself, I used to be doing it for the kids.”
Shortly earlier than, gathered in entrance of the courtroom, one spokespersons for the MeTooEcole collective referred to as for a “nationwide electroshock”. “Predators change colleges sooner than procedures transfer ahead,” learn the signal from one of many mother and father.
Three years in jail, together with one beneath bracelet, had been requested in opposition to David G. in relation to 3 kids, the prosecution contemplating that the information of sexual assault haven’t been established for the others. “We’re clearly upset” by these requisitions, commented for 20 Minutes Rebecca Royer and her affiliate Hannah Kopp. The choice is predicted on July 7.
*All kids’s first names have been modified
