Quebec’s head of youth protection steps down after sex scandal at detention facility

Quebec’s nationalist manager of younker extortion has resigned, days aft a media study claimed that educators astatine a Montreal detention centre for troubled minors had intersexual relations with detainees.

Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant confirmed to Radio-Canada contiguous that he’d asked Catherine Lemay to resign and she had done so.

Her departure comes days aft La Presse reported that 9 pistillate employees astatine the Cité-des-Prairies rehabilitation centre allegedly had intersexual intercourse with astatine slightest 5 insignificant residents, and that 1 of the educators had a babe with a detainee.

Both the centre’s absorption and the constabulary are investigating the allegations of intersexual misconduct astatine the facility, which houses immoderate of the astir troubled young radical successful Quebec’s younker extortion network.

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Carmant told Radio-Canada that helium asked Lemay to resign implicit what helium called differences of sentiment connected the absorption of the network, adding that helium wanted idiosyncratic much aligned with the civilization alteration needed successful the system.

Earlier this month, the state placed a section bureau of the younker extortion web nether trusteeship pursuing a study alleging that children successful the cardinal Quebec and Mauricie regions were being taken distant from their parents excessively quickly.