Charente: a teacher accused of rape and sexual assault on five children

A 60-year-old teacher is suspected of sexual assault and rape committed on very young students at a nursery school in Soyaux (Charente), we learned on Wednesday from the Angoulême public prosecutor's office. Presented to an investigating judge with a view to his indictment on Wednesday, the man, already placed in police custody during the summer for having photographed a child in another establishment, is suspected of sexual assault on five little girls, and of rape for one of them.

The alert came on Sunday from the parents of three girls aged three and educated in a small section, who “had just revealed to them that their teacher was forcing kisses on their mouths”, specifies the prosecution in a press release, confirming information from the newspaper Charente Libre.

This replacement teacher, who disputes all of the alleged facts, had worked in this Soyaux school since the start of the school year in September. The three little girls, interviewed by the investigators, named two other comrades “who would have suffered the same actions”.

One of the victims “also reported gestures regarding her sex”, which “the medico-legal findings did not exclude”, specifies prosecutor Benoît Bernard. He requested the provisional detention of the teacher. The latter was taken into police custody on July 28 after photographing a high school student during a nap during a one-day replacement in another nursery school.

The sixty-year-old admitted to having taken these photos, devoid of any sexual nature, and the Academic Inspectorate then reminded him of his professional obligations, indicates the press release from the prosecution. These facts, described as “violation of privacy by image fixation”, were attached to the current procedure.