A parascolaire educator in the region of Nyon was dismissed last week after an incident that left an 8-year-old child with a double fracture of the wrist. The end of the employment relationship was not an immediate dismissal, but it came after a report and an internal investigation already underway.
For parents, the case landed after months of fear had already built up. Virginie said her 5-year-old autistic son changed after the February holidays, started wetting the bed again and having violent tantrums, and later told her that Tristan had practiced “des jeux de torture” on him. She said he described how Tristan “serrait très fort les poignets” and did it “pour jouer.”
Virginie said her son later showed signs that matched what he had described, and she found bruises on his torso and buttocks. She said she alerted the structure, a medical report was drawn up, and a criminal complaint was filed at the end of March. “Aujourd'hui, je ne peux plus faire de câlins à mon enfant,” she said, adding that when an adult is suspected of abuse, she expects something different from the people in charge.
The structure says it received a report before the incident, immediately opened an internal investigation and contests having known about violent behavior. That response sits uneasily beside what Laurence says happened in March 2025, when her 5-year-old son told her the same educator hit him and pulled his hair very hard. The parents reported the facts to the deputy director, and a few days later Tristan called Laurence by phone.
Laurence said Tristan told her her son had misunderstood everything, that it was a game behind a closed door, and that it was permitted to hit and pull hair. Laurence said she was stunned, then later informed the direction after learning that another family had contacted the police. The direction says the concerns raised by parents were taken into account as soon as they were communicated to it.
What remains open is not whether the educator has been removed, but how early the warning signs were heard. The dismissal came only after the case had already moved into medical and criminal territory, and the gap between the parents’ complaints and the structure’s account is now the part that matters most.
