Quebec's director of youth protection steps down after rehabilitation centre sex scandal
CBC
The head of Quebec's youth protection system has been pressured by the provincial government to step down after allegations of sexual misconduct by staff at a Montreal rehabilitation centre and a separate controversy in the Mauricie region.
Lionel Carmant, the minister responsible for social services, told Radio-Canada Monday he asked Catherine Lemay to step down.
Lemay was the director of Quebec youth protection services, a position created to function as a watchdog over the system.
Last week, allegations surfaced that nine female educators working at the Cité-des-Prairies youth rehabilitation centre in Montreal's Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood had sexual relations with youth under their care.
Many of those youth were allegedly minors at the time, according to a health authority investigation.
Earlier this month, the youth protection office branch serving central Quebec and the Mauricie region was put under trusteeship, after a report said children were being removed from their parents too quickly.
According to the report, the region put three times more children up for adoption than more populous parts of the province.
Carmant, who appointed Lemay to her position in 2021, said Monday that asking her to step down was a "difficult decision."
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