Rapes and sexual assaults in a nursery school in Hérault: nine children aged 3 to 4 concerned, an ATSEM in pre -trial detention

Judicial information was opened on July 29 at the Montpellier judicial court. Moreover, for rapes on minors aged 15 and sexual assault on minors aged 15 per person with authority. Moreover, “The facts targeted concern acts of digital penetration. Consequently, masturbation likely to have been committed on young children, between October 1, 2024 and July 2, 2025 in Vic-la-Gardiole, by a specialized territorial agent of nursery schools (ATSEM) in the exercise of its functions”, Indicates the Montpellier prosecution. The agent concerned is a 59 -year -old woman. she was presented to the investigating judge for his indictment “For facts likely to have been committed on nine children aged 3 to 4”, continues the prosecution.

A complaint filed by the families of two children – Rapes sexual assaults nursery school

The investigation started following the complaint filed with the gendarmerie by the families of two children (a boy. a girl), in July according to our information. The agent in question was employed by the Les Aresquiers nursery school in Vic-la-Gardiole since October 1, 2024. She was placed in police custody a few days after these complaints, then released, while the investigations were continuing. Then the questioning was reversed within the framework of this investigation and indicted. Still according to our sources, the ATSEM would not have any legal history with sexual cartactère.

She was also suspended as a conservatory on July 3, 2025 by her employer, the town hall of Vic-la-Gardiole. The suspect has just been placed in pre -trial detention. The investigations continue under the direction rapes sexual assaults nursery school of the instructor magistrate and were entrusted to the research brigade of Castelnau-le-Lez.