A young woman who, as a child, had been raped and sexually assaulted by a man living with her parents, had the State condemned on appeal Tuesday, May 18, for gross misconduct and denial of justice.
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At first instance in 2018, the court recognized the denial of justice but considered that the action for gross negligence was time-barred, unlike the Paris Court of Appeal, which reversed its decision. The "
succession of insufficiencies (...) in the work of investigation and in the inter-service communication, and the lack of foresight which governed the assessment of the situation and the decision-making, constitute serious faults engaging the responsibility of the State
”, indicates the court in its judgment, which AFP was aware of. The State is ordered to pay 55,000 euros in compensation for the damage to this young woman, now 23 years old.
From 2002, his parents had lodged Roland Blaudy at their home, yet knowing his background as a pedophile.
The 65-year-old man admitted to having sexually assaulted and raped her between 2002 and 2005, when she was between five and seven years old.
He was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment by the Ille-et-Vilaine Assize Court in 2018.
For asking her daughter not to tell what Roland Blaudy had done to her by threatening her, the parents of the young woman were sentenced to three years in prison, including six months for the father, and two years suspended for the mother.
The latter had already been sentenced in the 80s for having killed at birth, with more than a hundred stab wounds, her first child, resulting from a rape.
Placed with her uncle and aunt in 2010, the young woman attacked the State for gross negligence in 2016 because the ten reports to the Rennes prosecutor's office made from her birth by doctors, school or social services had remained without reply. The young woman's lawyer, Me Grégory Thuan, said he was "
extremely satisfied
" with the decision. "
The court was up to the challenges, it is a step forward in the protection of children, and the obligations of the judicial institution,
" he said. State convictions for gross negligence are very rare in matters of child protection.
In June 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France, considering that social services and justice had "
failed
" to protect Marina, who died in 2009 at the age of 8 under the blows. of his parents.