According to the first elements, the rape was committed on May 2 while the little girl left the hospital, having visibly escaped the surveillance of the staff.
She had been there for more than a month, by decision of a children’s judge to remove her from her family, “for lack of space available throughout the youth assistance network and pending a more sustainable solution“.
According to the prosecution, “The child’s suicidal trends did not allow to consider a family return“.
But the hospital service that welcomed him was “totally unsuitable for its difficulties and devoid of the essential supervision“For such a case, he added, denouncing a situation of”institutional mistreatment“.
Two weeks ago, the head of the Brussels prosecution, Julien Moinil, had already alarmed himself by “l’abandon“By the public authorities in Brussels of a large number of young people in a situation of extreme vulnerability, in particular victims of intra -family violence, sometimes of sexual violence.
Currently in the Belgian capital “About 400 minors in danger have no room, are not welcomed“said Moinil, announcing the opening of a criminal investigation against X for” guilty abstention “.
Wednesday, revealing the rape of a minor in danger, the prosecution castigated “the structural deficit of reception places in the institutions of youth assistance“Due to a”lack of investment“.
These criticisms intervene against the backdrop of conflict between the judiciary and the Belgian government on the structural under-funding of justice.
Youth aid is a competence of federated entities, not from the federal level, but these are also subject to savings plans to straighten public finances, particularly in French-speaking Belgium.
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