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Murder of Lyhanna
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Angry protesters: There is fury because the suspect – 41 year-old Jérôme Barella – had been reported to police last August by the mother of a 10-year-old called Rosa, who alleged he had sexually abused her daughter on several occasions.

Medical evidence confirmed she had been abused, and yet not once in the nine months since the complaint was filed was Barella questioned by investigators.

In the eyes of an angry French public, had the suspect been at least contacted by police he would have known he was being watched and that may have prevented Lyhanna's death.

Lyhanna's body was found last Thursday at a farm around 10km (6 miles) from the town of Fleurance in south-west France, where she was last seen at the end of school six days previously.

Barella, who is the father of a friend of Lyhanna, was taken into custody three days after her disappearance... (MORE - details)

Has France failed its children? ... https://youtu.be/nKwRd6n1Zpk