Quebec set to name new head of youth protection system after sex scandal at facility

Quebec’s younker extortion section is poised to person a caller manager arsenic the fallout continues implicit a bombshell media study that claimed educators had intersexual intercourse with detainees astatine a Montreal detention centre for troubled minors.

Lesley Hill is expected to beryllium officially appointed to the presumption aft Social Services Minister Lionel Carmant asked for the resignation of Catherine Lemay earlier this week. On Monday, the curate said helium would name an interim replacement quickly.

The improvement comes pursuing La Presse’s study past week astir allegations of intersexual misconduct by unit members astatine Montreal’s Cité-des-Prairies rehabilitation centre. It reported 9 pistillate employees allegedly had intersexual intercourse with astatine slightest 5 minors and 1 of the educators had a babe with a teenage detainee.

Both constabulary and the Cité-des-Prairies absorption are investigating the allegations of intersexual misconduct astatine the facility. The centre houses immoderate of the astir troubled young radical successful the province’s younker extortion network, including those convicted of superior crimes.

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Hill helped oversee the Laurent committee into the authorities of the province’s younker extortion services pursuing the 2019 decease of a seven-year-old miss successful Granby who had been followed by the system.

On Wednesday morning, the absorption parties astatine Quebec’s nationalist assembly welcomed Hill’s tentative appointment.

— with files from The Canadian Press