Overview
- The Paris public prosecutor appealed the tribunal correctionnel’s acquittal, which was announced earlier in the week, and confined the challenge to the charges touching three of the children.
- The court acquitted David G., 36, saying there were no sufficiently formed material elements and that a “very serious doubt” benefited the defendant.
- Prosecutors relied mainly on concordant testimonies from children aged three to five while the tribunal pointed out variations between parents’ reports and investigators’ interviews and a psychologist’s finding that parents’ questioning may have influenced initial statements.
- Separately, the accused was convicted of sexual harassment of two colleagues, given an eight‑month sentence suspended over 24 months, ordered to pay damages, and placed on the sexual‑offenders registry which bars him from working with children.
- Families and parent collectives have held public protests and press actions, the prosecutor has opened inquiries across dozens of nurseries and schools, and further trials and appeals are expected to shape how cases that rely on very young witnesses are handled.