Question 11473 — children

Summary

Mr. Julien Limongi draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the extremely worrying situation of child protection and, in particular, to the growing exposure of minors taken care of by child welfare (ASE) to networks of prostitution and organized crime. In France, nearly 340,000 young people today depend on ASE. Among them, approximately 15 000 minors are victims of prostitution, according to the most recent estimates. The average age of entry into prostitution is now between 11 and 14 years old, an alarming threshold which reveals the collapse of protection mechanisms. The parliamentary inquiry report into shortcomings in public child protection policies highlighted structural and systemic failures. The Children's Defender, Mr. Eric Delemar, in particular, described a staggering situation: luxury vehicles, notably Audi A8s, parked in front of certain ASE homes, illustrating the incursion of organized crime networks into the very heart of the structures supposed to protect minors. A significant portion of ASE households are located in the middle of a sensitive urban area, in the heart of cities, which exposes them directly to traffickers, pimps and sexual predators. For many professionals, these establishments are no longer places of protection, but environments totally permeable to pressure, control and violence, where minors are sometimes spotted, recruited or threatened in the immediate vicinity of their place of accommodation. Faced with this explosion of the phenomenon and the immense vulnerability of these children, it appears urgent to implement a national plan to securing ASE structures, in order to make them real protected sanctuaries, inaccessible to criminal networks. He therefore wishes to know what measures the Government intends to take to physically secure ASE establishments, in particular through suitable location, reinforced protection and increased cooperation with the security forces; to prevent access by criminal networks to the immediate vicinity of homes; to implement a national plan to combat prostitution and sexual exploitation of minors entrusted to the ASE; to ensure reliable and public statistical monitoring of the phenomenon, which is still largely underestimated; to strengthen support, training and protection of professionals faced with increasingly dangerous situations. Finally, he asks him if the Government intends to engage, in the best possible way deadlines, a major reform to ensure that each ASE home truly becomes a place of protection and not a zone of influence for criminals.

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