After Lyhanna: 675 Suspects of Child Abuse Jailed
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After Lyhanna: 675 Suspects of Child Abuse Jailed
The Lyhanna case–the rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl by a man against whom several complaints of rape had been lodged prior to the tragedy, none of which had ever been investigated–sent shockwaves through France in early June. At the time, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin had promised a major review of ongoing cases of sexual assault involving minors. The time has now come to take stock. The justice minister had given magistrates and …
Since the guard of the Seals, after the murder of the little Lyhanna, asked the prosecutors to review all the complaints related to sexual violence against children, 32 judicial information had been opened and 24 persons had been charged with the jurisdiction of the judicial court in Grenoble. In total, about one third of the 600 preliminary investigations under way in mid-June should be followed by prosecutions, including about 100 at the inves…
The murder of eleven-year-old Lyhanna forces the French judiciary to rethink it. Investigators roll in abducted proceedings and arrest hundreds of suspects.
The Minister of Justice announced on Wednesday, July 15, the results of the inventory review he had requested from the prosecutors, at the peak of "Lyhanna case." While Gérald Darmanin welcomes the results, this unprecedented process illustrates above all the systemic nature of the failures and causes disturbing edge effects.
Gérald Darmanin, under pressure to resign, ordered prosecutors to review all hanging child sex abuse allegations before the summer holidays. He said prosecutors highlighted 970 as high priority, with the child still a minor and the suspect having previously been accused.
After the murder of Lyhanna in Gers, the courts reviewed 69,626 cases of child crime in France, identified a thousand priority cases and imprisoned 675 people.
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