Paris court hands monitor 18-month suspended sentence for assaulting preschooler in abuse scandal

According to France 24, a Paris court has handed a school monitor an eighteen-month suspended prison sentence for sexually abusing a kindergarten-age child. The court delivered the ruling on Friday. France 24 reports that it marks the first guilty verdict since Paris was rocked by a wave of allegations of child sex abuse by non-teaching staff across the capital's public school system.

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