French PM's daughter says priest beat her as a teenager
- Helen Perlant accused clergy at Notre-Dame de Betharram school of systemic abuse.
- Multiple accusations of physical and sexual abuse emerged spanning from 1957 to 2004.
- Perlant reported a priest beat her during a summer camp in the early 1980s.
- An association of victims documented 200 legal complaints against school staff since February last year.
- These accusations cast a shadow on her father's premiership, prompting his May 14 questioning.
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French PM's daughter says priest beat her as a teenager
A daughter of France's prime minister became Wednesday the latest to accuse the clergy running a school in the Pyrenees of systemic abuse including while Francois Bayrou was a local official, saying a priest beat her during summer camp when…
Scandal in France: Prime Minister's daughter reveals she was the victim of violence by a priest at a Catholic school camp at the center of allegations of abuse and rape - HotNews.ro
Hélène Perlant has confessed to being a victim of physical violence several decades ago at the Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram congregation's summer camp. Hundreds of victims of the physical and sexual abuse that took place…
The French Prime Minister’s daughter reveals that she suffered abuse at the age of 14 in her school: “She threw me on the ground and kicked me all over the body”
The facts would be part of the Bétharram case, a macro-investigation of abuses in a Catholic school that François Bayrou could have covered up
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