A nurse at a hospital in the suburbs of Paris was charged Saturday with sexual assault of minors after the exploitation of videos involving infants, the prosecutor's office learned AFP.

The 26-year-old woman was also charged with capturing and distributing child pornography in the case, which broke out after videos went viral on TikTok.

The acts were committed in December 2024 and January 2025 at the Montreuil hospital, north of the French capital, according to the prosecutor's office in the neighboring town of Bobigny.

The nurse, who worked in the neonatal intensive care unit for premature babies and was suspended, reported to the police on Wednesday evening, the prosecutor's office previously said.

She had notably accused a man, whom she said she had been under the influence of.

The latter, aged 28 and with whom she had been in a relationship, was charged with complicity in sexual assault, suspected of having been the instigator, added the prosecution.

The two accused were placed under judicial supervision, against the advice of the prosecution, which had requested their placement in provisional detention.

The case follows the dissemination of several videos on the TikTok platform warning of "a scandal in a hospital" in the area.

In one of these posts, a man facing the camera claimed that "two people who work with infants (...) are having fun mistreating black children," before adding that it was "sexual in nature."

"Now is the time to move forward and bring justice to the streets," he said in the video, which has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.

According to the prosecution, "there is no racial element in the act; one of the children is white, the other black."

Two victims have so far been identified in the exploitation of the videos.

The rumor quickly caused a stir on Wednesday and Thursday, with "worried mothers calling the hospital even though they had sometimes given birth there a year ago," the management of the Grand Paris Nord-Est territorial hospital group lamented to AFP.

"The actions of this nurse, if confirmed by the police investigation currently underway, represent a serious personal error that the hospital strongly condemns. They are in no way a collective service practice," management added in a statement.