The teenager suspected of the murder of little Rose, five years old, last year in Rambervillers (Vosges), is tried behind closed doors by the Epinal children’s court on Tuesday and Wednesday, three months after a first conviction for rape and sexual assault in another case. On April 25, 2023, less than an hour after her parents reported the girl’s disappearance, her body was discovered naked in a garbage bag, in an apartment in this town of 5,000 inhabitants in the Vosges. The teenager, aged 15 at the time of the events, admitted to having brought little Rose to his home, claiming that he was going to show her a kitten.
He admitted, during a reconstruction two months after the events, to having kept the child’s head underwater in the bathtub. Traces of semen were also found on Rose’s clothes, although the teenager has claimed since the beginning of the investigation that “nothing of a sexual nature” had happened that April day 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. 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 events, which occurred in February 2022, predated 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. The teenager is also the subject of another complaint for acts of rape and sexual assault committed in February 2022, we learned on Friday. A preliminary investigation is still underway on this subject, Epinal public prosecutor Frédéric Nahon told AFP.
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