Wednesday, July 2, 2025

‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France

"My mother wanted to get me away from Bordeaux so we begged the Bétharram school principal for a place. To persuade him, I told him about the abuse I'd endured, including the horrible detail that my attacker always handed me an envelope containing 50 French francs [the equivalent of €7, or £6]." 

Six months after Boris was admitted to Bétharram, the same school principal, Pierre Silviet-Carricart, a priest, called him into his office on his 14th birthday and sexually assaulted him, he said. "Then he handed me an envelope containing 50 francs," Boris said. "The cynicism and cruelty of that …"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/abuse-scandal-boarding-school-france-betharram


 

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