Two school heads in France have been charged with failing to report signs of domestic abuse in a brother and sister after one was killed, a prosecutor said on Monday, sparking outrage from teaching unions.
The youngest, a three-year-old girl, died in hospital in September after rescue services were called to the home where she lived with her mother, 27, and stepfather, 29, in the northwestern town of Conches-en-Ouche.
The girl’s entire body — face, limbs, chest, back and pelvic area — was covered in bruises at different stages of healing, indicating repeated beatings, and she had been out of school for a week, investigators said at the time. Her six-year-old brother also appeared to have been hit.