On Friday, November 22, the Var criminal court sentenced a 38-year-old man to twenty years in criminal prison, the maximum penalty, for periodically raping his teenage daughter and handing her over to unknown men, who raped her. The father’s conviction was accompanied by a two-thirds security period.
In this case, which is reminiscent in some ways of the Mazan rapes tried in Avignon, the only one of these rapists identified by investigators, who appeared to be free, was sentenced to sixteen years of criminal prison, with a preventive detention order. Sentences in accordance with the requests of the Attorney General, Estelle Bois.
Since Wednesday, the trial has highlighted the father’s control over his daughter, whose meetings, outings and social networks he controlled. He began forcing her to have frequent sexual relations when she was only 13 years old, combining flattery, insults and threats.
Attackers recruited on sites
He also handed her over to other men, often much older, recruited on classified advertising sites, such as Wannonce. On this site he stated that they were a couple of 26 and 20 years old who were looking to fulfill a fantasy. Blindfolded, the young woman had to submit to the wishes of these men in the presence of her father, who directed, participated and filmed.
The second defendant, a sixty-year-old man with no criminal record, father of six children, was confused thanks to the geolocation of one of the numerous pornographic photographs and videos of the teenager found on the father’s devices. With his head bowed, he declared before his judges that he had been caught, ensuring that he had adhered to the story of the fantasy of domination of an adult couple, without subsequently asking for the young woman’s consent since the man who was ‘accompanying’ gave it to him. .
However, in the photographs shown at the hearing there are no doubts about the teenager’s young age and anguish. “Things went wrong. Instead of reacting like a responsible man, he reached the end of his pleasure and closed his eyes.recognized his lawyer, Mmy Christophe Mairet, while insisting that the verdict distinguish between the father’s repeated rapes and the timing of his client’s wandering.
“It’s not about love, it’s about power.”
The father admitted the facts and promised not to appeal. “After three years of detention, I had time to think”he explained. However, during the investigation, and again during the hearing, he continued to mention a romantic relationship with the teenager, who was not his biological daughter but whom he recognized and raised. He thus maintained that he had only given in to their demands.
“It’s not about love, it’s about power and domination”thundered the general counsel, Estelle Bois. “He doesn’t like it [sa fille]“He likes to have all the power over her, that she belongs to him, that she obeys him.”. “At that moment that father-daughter relationship seemed normal to me”said the young woman, accompanied for three days by Neige, a golden retriever made available to her for the first time in the Draguignan court by a victim assistance association.
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Three years ago, it was she who ended her ordeal by fleeing, as the violence and humiliation escalated. One night in August 2021, in Cavalaire-sur-Mer, a passer-by who was on vacation, seeing her running crying, approached her, listened to her and took care of her, even accompanying her to the gendarmes while the father made multiple calls and text messages. . messages. Now, at 18 years old, the young woman hopes and wishes “close the book and move on”thanks to a boyfriend his age and a CAP hairdressing project.
