The family of little Maélie Brossoit-Nogueira, who was killed by her mother with 80 stab wounds, is suing the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, which oversees the Montreal Youth Centre, for more than US$3 million -Dollar. Montreal.
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This trial comes seven months after the imposition of a ten-year prison sentence on a reduced charge of manslaughter imposed on the mother of the young victim, Stéphanie Brossoit, who died in July 2020 at the family home in the Mercier-Hochelaga district – Maisonneuve – the committed irretrievable things.
The mother was in psychosis that day after taking a cocktail of drugs and medication.
According to Maélie’s confidants, between April 2019 and April 2020, the DPJ received four reports concerning the child because the child was at serious risk of neglect, psychological abuse and neglect at both an educational and physical level, as well as problems in the maternal environment .
Three of the reports were retained, but the child’s file was closed, despite the very troubling circumstances, according to the lawsuit.
The mother, Stéphanie Brossoit, had problems with alcohol and drug use (methamphetamine, cocaine, GHB, ecstasy) as well as depression, which led to a suicide attempt.
Despite taking medication, the problems had worsened in the months before the murder on July 23, 2020 in his apartment in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district.
This family “fell victim to a system whose numerous actors failed in their primary task, namely the protection of the child,” the lawsuit states.
“The CIUSSS Center-Sud and the DPJ have notably failed to ensure that real safety nets are constantly in place in the mother’s environment, while all reports concerned this environment, leaving the child alone on the night of his death with the person who cared for him will ultimately take his life.”
Maélie Brossoit-Nogueira’s family is represented by Montreal lawyer Me Valérie Assouline, who also represents the family of the little martyr from Granby.