Alsace: a host suspected of touching several children indicted


An extracurricular animator from Lampertheim in the Bas-Rhin, was indicted on Thursday March 3 for touching several children in his care, said the Strasbourg prosecutor’s office.

A 44-year-old man, married and a father, was taken into custody yesterday for “sexual assault on a 15-year-old minor” and, in the case of an alleged victim, for “corruption of a 15-year-old minor “.

The suspect had worked for twenty years in this center, where he could have been in contact with some 2,000 children.

A total of 8 alleged victims, the oldest of whom was 12 years old, have been identified: 7 girls and 1 boy. The alleged victims attended an after-school center in Lampertheim, a town of just under 3,000 inhabitants located about fifteen kilometers north of Strasbourg.

A first complaint filed but dismissed

A young woman, now in her twenties, had filed a first complaint last year, which had initially been dismissed, but others had then followed.

The 40-year-old was, however, the subject since the first complaint of an administrative suspension, according to the prosecution, and a report from the national education system.

During his police custody, he partially acknowledged the facts, indicating that he had suffered for ten years from “urges” that he “does not explain”, according to the prosecution, which retained the year 2010 as that of the start of the alleged touching.

The man also said he downloaded child pornography to his computer. Investigators seized around sixty hard drives from his home, two of which, according to the host, contain child pornography content.

The prosecution was to request his placement in pre-trial detention during the debate before the judge of freedoms and detention, but nothing has yet been communicated.

The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmerie of Mundolsheim (Bas-Rhin), which set up two telephone lines (06.71.17.86.19/06.71.01.65.68), in order to collect the testimonies of other potential victims.



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