A chilling story which highlights the inaction of justice which led to the death of Lyhanna… The content material of the criticism filed by the mom of little Rosa on August 22, 2025 in Plaisance-du-Contact close to Toulouse towards Jerome Barella which was capable of be consulted by our colleagues from La Dépêche du Midi do chilly down the again.
Audrey and her 11-year-old daughter accuse the principle suspect within the Lyhanna affair of getting raped the child then aged 10 years previous, supporting forensic proof. Regardless of detailed info and examinations which show the presence of lesions suitable with rape, Jerome Barella won’t ever be heard on this case earlier than his indictment. However what occurred to little Rosa?
“My coronary heart”, “his daughter”… A person who is just too current and intrusive
In line with the criticism, all of it begins between September 2024 and Could 2025 in Auch. Rosa, 11, turns into pals with one in every of Jérôme Barella’s daughters at taekwondo. In a short time, the person interferes within the little woman’s each day life.
In her assertion, Audrey, Rosa’s mom, describes a person who was “too current” and more and more intrusive. Barella provides the little woman dolls and stuffed animals, calls her “my coronary heart” and claims to think about her “like his daughter”. Then the daddy’s conduct slips: he calls for Rosa’s presence at his residence, in Montestruc-sur-Gers, even when his personal daughters are absent. A stifling familiarity that pushes the mom to distance herself.
“Mother, I’m not mendacity to you”
It’s only after a transfer, in the summertime of 2025, that speech is freed following questions from the kid about sexuality. She finally ends up testifying to her mother and father that Jérôme Barella raped her. The story recorded by the gendarmes is horrible: “He put her on her mattress and undressed her and he undressed himself… It harm her very a lot”. Round ten rapes, relying on the lesions, will probably be licensed by the forensic pathologists. To her mom, Rosa will slip into her arms: “Mother, I’m not mendacity to you.”
Our file on the Lyhanna affair
Reheard by the gendarmes in February 2026, Audrey already denounced the slowness of justice, Barella having remained free with out ever being heard till the homicide of Lyhanna: “He’s at giant (…) we’re destroyed”, she testified on February 14. In the present day, this mom doesn’t need to surrender something for her daughter but additionally for Lyhanna and has introduced that she is taking the State to courtroom for “gross misconduct”.
