“There needs to be a national wake-up call at some point," Barka Zerouali, co-founder of the parents’ group MeToo Ecole, said outside the courthouse during a protest.

“There needs to be a national wake-up call at some point," Barka Zerouali, co-founder of the parents’ group MeToo Ecole, said outside the courthouse during a protest.

Parents' groups in France called Tuesday for more attention to long-ignored child abuse scandals as a rare public trial opened Tuesday of a school assistant accused of sexually assaulting nine sm

Parents’ groups in France are calling for more attention to child abuse scandals as a rare public trial opens in Paris.