Thirteen years required for an alleged rape and acquitted in the end
The jury sitting in Saint-Omer, spoke Tuesday night, for the payment ...
a 41 year old man accused of sexually abusing an underage girl at Bucquoy. The facts found during the trial run from 1 January 2007 to April 29, 2008. Already held in another case (he should get out of jail in a month), the accused was presented under judicial supervision, Monday and Tuesday at the foundation of the Pas-de-Calais.
The case began with complaints from parents of a young girl from the gendarmerie brigade Foncquevillers, January 11, 2008, against a man of 37 years. Former partner of the sister of the victim, he was housed in the family since its release from prison in December 2006 until November 2007. It would then be guilty of fondling the girl. In November 2007, he had had sexual intercourse with further penetration. The girl became pregnant. She was 15.
According to the victim, there were ten complete sexual intercourse, sometimes with condoms. The man invited himself in his room while the family was asleep.
The difficulty of this case was to judge whether or not the man had been aware he was committing a rape. His perception of the facts seemed blurred. The victim herself, during the trial, recognize that there may have been confusion in the mind of the accused ... while maintaining its allegations. At 15, the girl was old enough to have her first consensual sex, but she claimed never to have desired. The medical examiner who had inspected the victim stated that "no trace of sexual abuse was observed. Another element that would mark the jurors the testimony of a former girlfriend of the accused, also minor, with whom he had left in Amiens, before to be stopped in February 2008. This girl claimed that the victim showed the aggressiveness and jealousy towards him ... The prosecution will claim thirteen years in prison for the accused. The jurors themselves, choose an acquittal. What Ms. Daphne Weppe for the defense, is delighted: "This trial is exemplary, it's a nice acknowledgment. There was a real debate about the perception that my client could have made. " Remains that the accused, who admitted "moments of weakness" with the girl in his past, had many relationships with minors ... The Crown will he call?
http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/Locales/Arras/actualite/Secteur_Arras/2011/03/03/article_treize-ans-requis-pour-un-viol-presume-e.shtml
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