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The alleged perpetrator of child grooming in police custody for 54 days

The student who denounced her former music teacher at Loreto Junior School (LJS) in Curepipe for child grooming and sexual relations, when she was a minor, will be confronted with him in the days to come. She will have to appear at an identification parade. The young woman, who is studying abroad, arrived in Mauritius this week as part of this affair which had shaken the Lorette Institute, accused of having failed in its obligation of mandatory reporting when it became aware of the facts which had been revealed to it. reported in 2025. The person who initiated this affair will record their complaint and will be heard by all authorized parties shortly after their arrival in the country.

The former music teacher at Loreto Junior School in Curepipe, arrested for child grooming and child illtreatment in a case of alleged sexual abuse, is in his 8th week of detention. With the arrival in Mauritius in a few days of the person who broke this scandal and who revealed other alleged victims, this affair could experience a new turning point. The young woman, aged around twenty and who studies abroad, will travel to the country to testify against the fifty-year-old, who has been in cell for 54 days.

If, in the two official complaints, the alleged victims - a 13-year-old schoolgirl and a young woman in her twenties - denounced the inappropriate behavior of the former teacher towards them, the denunciations of the student to those in charge of Loreto Junior School, in 2025, reported allegations of a sexual nature. The young woman said she had sexual relations with the man from the age of 15, so she was a minor. The two would have maintained a hidden romantic relationship, which would have started with a grooming process, while the young woman was still a schoolgirl. His testimony risks being compromising for the former music teacher.

This trip to Mauritius is, above all, to go to the police and participate in all the procedures relating to this case. Although she informed officials at the Loreto Institute of her story, taking the matter to court was not part of her immediate plans. But after the media coverage of her denunciations and faced with the scale of the scandal, she resigned herself to returning to the country, thanks to the help of a private sector group which largely financed her ticket plane.

“Less catastrophic conditions” During his appearance before the Curepipe District Court last Tuesday, the ex-teacher was refused conditional release. While the representative of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

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