She was under the protection of child welfare (ASE), a service of the department.
But she had been placed in a hotel in Aubière, near Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme).
A 15-year-old girl was found dead last weekend, reports France Bleu, supported by the anger of LFI MP Marianne Maximi who opened up about it in committee.
A 15-year-old girl committed suicide last week in her hotel room where she had been placed by Puy-de-Dôme Child Welfare.
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— Marianne Maximi (@MarianneMaximi) January 30, 2024
Alarmed by worrying messages posted on social networks, the teenager's boyfriend, who no longer gave any news, raised the alarm.
And that's how the young woman was found hanged in a hotel on the outskirts of the Puy-de-Dôme prefecture.
Justice has opened an investigation into the causes of death.
The Department in charge of child protection has set up a psychological unit, indicates France Bleu.
Also read “We are left to our own devices”: the cry of alarm from minors confined in hotel rooms in Hauts-de-Seine
Due to a lack of resources and places in departmental structures, minors placed under the protection of the ASE are regularly accommodated in hotel establishments.
A report from the Senate Social Affairs Committee estimated that at the end of 2019, around 5% of young people in state care were sleeping in hotels, or between 7,500 and 10,500 minors.
“Child protection is collapsing and taking children’s lives with it”
But, “these overall figures, however, hid a great variability: the departments resorted to hotels for a proportion of minors varying from 1% to 18%,” laments the report.
Child protection is collapsing and taking children’s lives with it.
What are we waiting for as parliamentarians to act and reform child protection?
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— Marianne Maximi (@MarianneMaximi) January 31, 2024
Since February 7, 2022, a law relating to child protection and which was to come into force on February 1, prohibits these placements.
Except that “this measure was never implemented.
The implementing decree never appeared,” regrets the LFI MP for Puy-de-Dôme, Marianne Maximi, who calls on the government and says she is “angry”: “Another minor has died while she was protected.
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“Child protection is collapsing and taking children’s lives with it,” she notes.
What are we waiting for as parliamentarians to act and reform child protection?
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