The YouTuber ExperimentBoy, prosecuted for acts of corruption of minors, was sentenced, on Tuesday, October 15, to two years of suspended prison by the criminal court of Val-de-Briey (Meurthe-et-Moselle). This sentence was accompanied by a ban on contact with the victims for three years and a permanent ban on practicing a profession in contact with minors.
The sentence is higher than the one proposed at the hearing, on September 17, by the prosecutor, who had requested, after four years of investigation, ten months of suspended prison against the man with more than a million subscribers on his channel. YouTube.
The YouTuber, whose real name is Baptiste Mortier-Dumont, who is now 30, was not present when the deliberations were announced on Tuesday, nor at the hearing last month. He was referred in September to the Val-de-Briey jurisdiction for corruption of six minors, two of whom were under 15 years old at the time of the events. The alleged events took place from February 2016 to June 2018.
The investigation was opened in June 2020 by the Lyon prosecutor’s office. It was then handed over to the Val-de-Briey prosecutor’s office, since the accused had moved to eastern France. Initially, a collective file had been sent to the Lyon prosecutor and two complaints had been filed for acts of corruption of minors.
Photos of sex and simultaneous masturbation.
One of the complainants, a civil party in the case, had published a testimony under the hashtag Jesuiscvictime in March 2020 on Twitter, since renamed X. He reported that a “Quite well-known YouTuber” He had addressed it three years earlier on Twitter. “He used his notoriety to use me as a remote ‘sex slave.’ “I was 13 years old, unable to consent to such a thing, and I would have liked to start my sexual life differently.”continuous.
According to a survey on the website numeramaThe YouTuber would have targeted at least ten of his fans. Five victims were under 15 years old when he allegedly first sent them invitations to exchange sexual photographs or proposals for simultaneous masturbation.
ExperimentBoy became known in 2012 by publishing dozens of videos in which he was shown carrying out extravagant and spectacular scientific experiments inspired by the Anglo-Saxon television program “MythBusters.” His YouTube channel was demonetized in 2020 and he hasn’t posted a video to that account in four years.
