A couple who run a social structure in Noirétable (Loire) welcoming minors were arrested and placed in police custody on Wednesday.
The establishment has been closed.
The spouses are suspected of having abused, raped and sexually assaulted the children and adolescents entrusted to them by the social services.
Aged about forty, the leaders were arrested as part of a preliminary investigation entrusted to the research brigade of the Montbrison gendarmerie.
The ten children for whom they were responsible at the Place de Vie et d'Accueil "Les Bois noirs" were "urgently removed from the establishment on June 2, following reports from employees and complaints from parents and former residents, says David Charmatz, the public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne.
In business for a dozen years
Questioned by AFP, the LR president of the Loire Departmental Council, Georges Ziegler, for his part confirmed that he had taken an "arrest of suspension of the activity" of this establishment which has been welcoming children and adolescents for a dozen years. 'years.
The couple of leaders is also suspected of having diverted for their personal use part of the financing (149 euros per day and per child) of social assistance for children.
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