Friday evening, a 50-year-old was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by the Assize Court of Guadeloupe for several rapes, some of which were committed against minors.
A 50-year-old was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by the Assize Court of Guadeloupe for several rapes, some of which were committed against minors, we learned on Saturday from the Basse-Terre prosecutor’s office. The accused was sentenced on Friday evening to the “maximum sentence” required by the general counsel, accompanied by ten years of socio-judicial follow-up with a treatment order, Danielle Drouy-Ayral, public prosecutor at the court, told AFP. of call of Basse-Terre. He was found guilty of raping five people, some of whom were minors at the time.
This maintenance worker, employed in a school, would have acted until 2018, at the home of a local elected official, often absent and whose house he kept, according to local media. The latter “had given him the care of his house for 12 years, he says he was never surprised when he saw him arrive, sometimes with young children”, reported the daily France-Antilles. Some children “were part of his family, nephews or nieces”, others were “idle children, neglected, school failure, runaway”, explained on Radio Caraïbes International (RCI) one of the lawyers at the trial.
Five victims had joined as civil parties, the youngest being 17 years old to date, but their number could be much larger and approach “thirties”, according to RCI, which specifies that “for certain acts there would be prescription “. A witness, who could no longer be a civil party, thus recounted alleged attacks dating back to the 1980s.