It would go almost unnoticed. A rapist is however seated less than two meters from Karine (1) in the accused’s box at the Var Assize Court. But it is his ex-spouse, prosecuted for failure to report a crime, incestuous sexual assault and corruption of minors, who has been centralizing the debates since Monday (our previous editions). Rightly so, as his massive denial calls out.
Torn hymen
This Wednesday afternoon, when the jurors come to deliver their verdict, Simon will nevertheless receive the heaviest sentence. Despite his partial confessions and the beginning of work on himself. Because yes, between January 2015 and June 2017 in the family apartment in Pradet, he forced his stepdaughter Mélanie (the first name has been changed) to dozens of fellatios and as many sexual assaults. But at no time, he was able to repeat this Tuesday, did he introduce his sex or his fingers into the vagina or the anus of the girl, then 9 years old.
“During my examination carried out in 2020, I was able to visualize that Mélanie’s hymen was torn in two places, testified the expert gynecologist. No dating is possible, but these clear and old tears are classic of sexual intercourse by penetration of a penis, an object or several fingers…”
“Formally no” responds in stride the accused to the question of whether he is at the origin of this defloration. “Melanie lied, she extrapolates. She maximizes. At the point where I am, I have no interest in not telling the truth.”
“Why would she say all that, rebounds Me Julie Taxil in the civil part. Do you think it’s easy for a 12-year-old to get checked out by a gynecologist in a rape investigation? We are talking here about a child whose sexuality began at 8 years old with the partner she considered to be her father…” And that gave investigators details that were hard to invent at that age.
Especially since at the heart of this dysfunctional family where, according to Karine’s mother, everything was going well apart from a certain violence from Simon – “my daughter was afraid of it”– Mélanie and her younger brother were on their own.
Social and emotional misery
This social and emotional misery ended up alerting the social services. Simon, supposedly rejected on a sexual level by his companion, would have fallen back on his stepdaughter to satisfy his lowest impulses. “His lack of mental elaboration, his inability to represent the other did not allow him to take into account the age, the need and the singularity of Mélanie, advances the expert psychologist Sophie Demade. His affects were suppressed except on a narcissistic level.”
Undergoing an incestuous family context that he considers established by the mother of the family, Simon could have left. “Or have an extramarital affair, imagine the psychologist. But he told me he was against adultery.” In his eyes, clouded by excessive consumption of alcohol and cannabis, abusing a child was more acceptable…
“I had an attraction for a single child who should never have been, concedes today the thirty-something. I imposed this act.” At his side in the box, Karine has necessarily heard this confession. At the time, in the 45m² of the Pradet apartment, she would have seen nothing.
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