A highly anticipated trial for six women. In Albi in Tarn, Robert E., a 71-year-old former nurse converted into a magnetizer, is on appeal from this Wednesday until Friday for rape or sexual assault on six of his patients.
He was sentenced in March 2021 by the Haute-Garonne criminal court to a seven-year prison sentence for these facts which allegedly took place between 2013 and 2017, as part of treatment sessions to treat skin diseases. The court found him guilty of two rapes and four sexual assaults, reports La Dispatch from the South.
The same operating mode
During this first trial, the civil parties had recounted the way of working by Robert E, recalls Le Figaro. Patients came for problems with eczema, warts or even patches on the skin, hoping that this undeclared magnetizer could help them. On site, according to the complainants, the former nurse dimmed the lights, locked the office, asked them to undress completely, and passed his hands over the women's chests and other private parts. Two of them accused Robert E. of digital rape.
The accused, who always contested the accusations, believing that his professional actions were misinterpreted, had appealed. His trial opens this Wednesday. He faces twenty years in prison.
