The teenager who will be tried next week for the alleged murder in the Vosges of little Rose, 5 years old, is the subject of a new complaint for rape, we learned on Friday from the Epinal public prosecutor’s office. The complaint was filed in April, “for acts of rape and sexual assault” committed in February 2022, prosecutor Frédéric Nahon told AFP.
“The preliminary investigation is currently still underway,” he added, confirming information from BFMTV. According to the news channel, the complaint was filed by a “former friend” of the teenager: it refers to events which allegedly took place at the young man’s home “in Rambervillers in February 2022”. In a previous case, the teenager was already sentenced in March to three years in prison, one of which was suspended, by the Epinal children’s court for rape and sexual assault on two minors.
The facts, which date back, as with the new complaint, to February 2022, predate Rose’s death. Placed in a closed educational center outside the department for a year after these events, the teenager then returned to live with his mother in Rambervillers.
Suspected of having killed little Rose in April 2023, he must be tried on Tuesday and Wednesday before the Epinal children’s court. On April 25, 2023, less than an hour after her parents reported the girl’s disappearance, her body was discovered naked in a trash bag, in an apartment in this town of 5,000 inhabitants.
The teenager, aged 15 at the time of the events, admitted to having lured little Rose to his home, claiming that he was going to show her a kitten. He admitted, during a reconstruction two months later, to having kept the child’s head underwater in the bathtub. Traces of semen were found on Rose’s clothes, although the teenager claimed, since the beginning of the investigation, that “nothing of a sexual nature” had happened with the child.
In an autopsy report, the experts noted “the absence of traumatic vulvovaginal traces and the anal verge”, while estimating that “this does not make it possible to eliminate touching”.
But another expert report then noted that the girl’s genetic profile had been found “in a very small minority on the testicles and penis of the accused” but also on his pants and underwear, according to a Source close to the case.
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