Magistrates and lawyers know that it is often behind closed doors at home that the worst crimes take root. The case that the Côtes-d'Armor departmental criminal court will unravel over three days, starting this Wednesday, January 22, 2025, is one of them. It is the mother's complaint against her husband, in July 2022, which will trigger the investigation, in the country of Loudéac. It will highlight the years of abuse suffered by their daughter. This adoptive father, 39 years old, raped her for years with the complicity, which the investigators will discover during the investigations, of the mother. “I am guilty,” declares the main accused on the first day of their trial.
He is also being prosecuted for having delivered their daughter, now barely an adult, to strangers at rest areas and in the shadows of abandoned places, in Côtes-d'Armor, where the couple settled. in 2017, after living for a few years in Ille-et-Vilaine. He distributed sexual photos of the young victim on the now banned Coco site, implicated in numerous sexual abuse legal proceedings, including the recent Mazan rape trial. There too, the accused arranged to meet men recruited on the internet. Two of them, identified, admitted to having had sexual relations with the victim on several occasions.
“He considered his daughter to be a woman”
But most of the time, these meetings were “unannounced”, reports the director of investigation. On the side of roads, on beaches, in the woods. The facts lasted for 5 years, from 2017 to 2022. She was 11 years old when they started. It was his fifth grade year. In the dock, the mother is also being prosecuted for incestuous rape, corruption of a minor and failure to report a crime. She knew when she left her husband and the family home in 2020, leaving her three children there. Her husband also forced her to have sexual relations with others for a long time. At this stage of the trial, it is unclear whether she consented to those involving their daughter.
-It seems that a climate of jealousy had set in within the home, and led to her departure: the mother saw her daughter as a rival. Because this father “considered his daughter as his wife,” says the director of investigation, her mother abandoned her with him. The third accused is a long-time friend of the main accused. In love with him. Without family or social reference points. Aged 33, he has been detained, like the father, since his indictment in January 2023. This man admits to around fifty rapes against the victim. He claims to have acted under the influence of the one he loved, under penalty of suffering violence. All three face twenty years of criminal imprisonment.
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