• On Wednesday June 22, an 11-month-old girl died after ingesting a toxic product in her crèche, located in Lyon 3rd.

  • The terrible affair suddenly changed from manslaughter to voluntary manslaughter, the crèche employee present at the time of the events having admitted to having "sprayed, then made the child ingest a caustic product".

  • Three days after these revelations, the parents were in shock, Monday in Lyon, and had difficulties when dropping off their child in the various microcrèches of the People & Baby network.

“There are no words, I am devastated.

“This card of condolences with trembling writing rests on three bouquets of flowers, in front of the entrance to the Danton Rêve nursery (Lyon 3rd).

This Monday evening, there are many feathers hanging from the ceiling, in an atmosphere of dream catcher so far from the drama experienced by a Lyon family last Wednesday.

About thirty minutes after her arrival, in this private micro-nursery of the People & Baby network (700 establishments in France, including 32 in the Rhône), an 11-month-old girl was fatally poisoned by an early childhood agent, all alone on the scene. this June 22 in the morning.

"Exceeded by the crying of the child, she sprinkled her, then made her ingest a caustic product", in this case Destop for WC, said the Lyon prosecutor's office on Friday, after the confessions of the suspect of 27 years old, described as “fragile” by her lawyer.

This terrible death has deeply shocked so many young parents in France, especially in Lyon, and even more so among those who entrust their child to People & Baby crèches.

Lyon: What we know about the fatal poisoning of an 11-month-old girl by a crèche employee https://t.co/2wWDDsDwTh via @ 20minutesLyon

— 20 Minutes Lyon (@20minuteslyon) June 26, 2022


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“We want to know the exact regulatory policy”

Apart from Danton Rêve, which normally accommodates 10 children in the Part-Dieu district, all the other People & Baby establishments were open on Monday in Lyon.

“It obviously freaks out, explains a mother who prefers to remain anonymous, when picking up her daughter from her micro-nursery in the 7th arrondissement.

Personally, I have great confidence in the team in place here, which has communicated very well with us since Friday.

Such horror could just as well have happened to a childminder.

The concern is there as soon as you are a parent, but it is not linked to this structure.

»

Another mother, engaged with the La Belle Cour crèche (Lyon 2nd) for a few months for her baby, is more nuanced: “We have not yet received any formal communication from People & Baby.

We may have confidence in the whole team, we want to know the exact regulatory policy.

Because when I think about it, sometimes there was only one person to take care of eight children when I dropped off my daughter, is that normal?

".

At least two speakers all day now?

This is one of the major questions that many parents have this week, who do not really dare to ask if all these structures can really house a product as dangerous as the Destop WC.

In this case, the regulations from which micro-crèches benefit allow a professional to be alone with one to three children, at certain times of the day.

But as this mother noted on Monday morning, People & Baby has this time chosen to mobilize three professionals (“a first for several months”), as if to try to reassure all these families in Lyon.

Some of them also received an email from the regional management on Sunday evening to this effect, in order to standardize, from June 27, the openings and closings of establishments to at least two professionals.

A device that could perhaps have prevented the fatal poisoning of the past week.

This email, Alice is surprised not to have received it before taking her son Joseph (4 months) on Monday to the La Belle Cour crèche.

A complaint filed in November with a microcrèche

"We obviously can't talk about that in front of the children, but I would like to know what support is planned for us and for the staff," she recalls.

It's my first experience and even my first month in a crèche, so I was really sick to my stomach when I left my boy this morning.

It's hard to separate things after this horror, but the professionals were able to reassure me when I arrived.

It is up to all of us to show kindness in such a period.

The death of this 11-month-old baby brought up many painful memories for Emilie and Steeve Grégoire.

Parents since July 2021 of a little Louise, they joined one of the People & Baby nurseries, Nido de Sévigné (Lyon 3rd), three months later.

“When we arrived, there were four workers plus a director whom we appreciate, says Emilie Grégoire, neuropsychologist at the Woman Mother Child Hospital (HFME) in Bron.

She recognized that she had a lot of difficulty recruiting staff and she left very quickly.

Suddenly, there were only two employees, whose exact functions were not known.

I found that the organization was hardly rigorous.

“Then on November 22, 2021, this couple in their thirties recovers Louise” with large traces at the temple and around the eye “.

Emilie Grégoire provided elements to

20 Minutes

, like this photo below.

"Children may have been in danger in this nursery"

The explanations of the staff then diverge, around a shock with other children, and make young parents fear the worst.

“It looked like a slap in the face and when I had the new director on the phone, she never assured me that no member of the team had been able to hit Louise, points out Emilie Grégoire.

We then did not receive the written version of the unfolding of the facts that the crèche had agreed to send us.

The young woman immediately filed a handrail at the police station and then a complaint with the family protection brigade, while removing her baby from Nido de Sévigné.

I have had no news of any consequences.

Children may have since been in danger in this nursery, and it was the lack of reaction from the company that shocked me the most.

I was devastated on Friday when I discovered that this poisoning was in a People & Baby nursery.

I haven't slept for several nights, as if I myself had lost a member of my family.

This drama haunts me.

»

Louise, who will celebrate her first birthday next month, has been looked after by her grandmother since November 22, 2021.

The only daycare in which Emilie and Steeve Grégoire have complete confidence today.

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