The facts took place in Buding in 2004. Nineteen years later, a sixty-something father who appeared for sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl was found guilty by the Thionville Criminal Court. The former animator in a leisure center was sentenced to a twelve-month prison sentence fully suspended with a ban on coming into contact with the victim, a definitive ban on exercising a profession related to minors. He will also be registered in the computerized file of perpetrators of sexual offenses and will have to compensate the victim for moral damage.
” Like nothing ever happened “
The defendant, now 62, had partially acknowledged the facts in 2022 – “I may have heckled her a bit. I wanted a child next to me […] I stroked her hair and her upper body” – before recanting in court. The victim who filed a complaint in 2022, seventeen years after the facts, has a completely different version. She says he sat down next to her on the couch as she watched TV he squeezed her throat with one hand and touched her breasts and sex with the other, before to get up and leave “as if nothing had happened” when someone entered the room. And to testify again: “Another time, he came, I got up and went to join the others. »
The search carried out by the gendarmes at the home of the father of the family had brought to light somewhat disturbing elements such as the exhibition in his living room of a photo representing his children in the company of the one who accuses him.
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