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Paris court hands monitor 18-month suspended sentence for assaulting preschooler in abuse scandal

Demonstrators hold a banner reading "No child should be afraid to go to school" as they take part in a gathering in front of the criminal court of Paris
Demonstrators hold a banner reading "No child should be afraid to go to school" as they take part in a gathering in front of the criminal court of Paris, called by the #MeeTooEcole collective, ahead of the opening day for the trial of an after-school staff member, accused of sexually assaulting preschool pupils, in Paris on May 26, 2026. © Simon Wohlfahrt, AFP

A Paris court handed a school monitor an 18-month suspended prison sentence on Friday for sexually abusing a kindergarten-age child. It's the first such guilty verdict since the French capital was rocked by a wave of allegations of child sex abuse by non-teaching staff in Paris's public school system.

A Paris court on Friday found a man guilty of sexually assaulting a kindergarten-age girl in his care, in the first such verdict after multiple allegations in the French capital.

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