French justice sentenced this Friday, November 22, a 38-year-old man to 20 years of criminal imprisonment, the maximum sentence, for having regularly raped his teenage daughter and having handed her over to strangers who raped her, indicates theAgence France Presse (AFP).
Absolute control over his daughter
In this case judged by the criminal court of Var (south), the only one of these rapists identified by the investigators, who appeared free, was for his part sentenced to 16 years of criminal imprisonment. Convictions in accordance with the requisitions of the attorney general, Estelle Bois.
Since Wednesday, the trial has highlighted the father's control over his daughter, over whom he exercised absolute control and on whom he imposed very frequent sexual relations from the age of 13. He also led her to other men, often much older, recruited on classified ad sites like Wannonce, where he presented himself and his daughter as a couple of young adults seeking to satisfy a fantasy.
Blindfolded, the young girl had to submit to the desires of these men, in the presence of her father who directed, participated and filmed.
The other convict claims to have been trapped
While acknowledging the facts, the father assured that he had a romantic relationship with the teenager and maintained that he had only given in to her requests.
“It’s not about love, it’s about power and domination. He doesn't love (his daughter), he likes to have all the power over her, that she belongs to him, that she obeys him.”insisted Estelle Bois.
The attorney general also had very harsh words towards the other accused, identified thanks to the geolocation of one of the numerous pornographic photos and videos of the young girl, images found on the father's devices. This sixty-year-old, father of six children, claimed to have been trapped, ensuring that he did not doubt the story of the fantasy of domination of two young adults during their first three meetings and to have been overwhelmed during the last, including the investigators found a video that they described as “sordid”.
In certain aspects, this trial is reminiscent of that of the rapes of Mazan (south), this dramatic trial which moved France and well beyond. The victim, Gisèle Pelicot, 71, was raped without her knowledge, while previously sedated, for a decade by her husband and strangers whom he recruited on the Internet.
