A former magistrate was sentenced in France on Friday to two years in prison, including one year suspended, for having offered Internet users sex with his 12-year-old daughter, without having taken action.
A former magistrate was sentenced in France on Friday to two years in prison, including one year suspended, for having offered Internet users sex with his 12-year-old daughter, without having taken action. The 56-year-old father of three, who was vice-president of the Dijon court in eastern France, was also subject to a care obligation and a ban on volunteering or volunteering. professional in connection with minors by the court of Besançon, a town located about a hundred kilometers east of Dijon.
The former magistrate, who did not appear at the hearing on February 18 due to “his state of health”, will be able to serve the firm part of his sentence under electronic surveillance at his home, where he still lives with his family. The man, whose name is withheld by AFP to preserve the identity of his minor daughter, will be listed as a sex offender. He was revoked in July by the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), but this decision is the subject of an appeal before the Council of State, the supreme administrative judge in France.
The former magistrate admitted to having written these messages
The case started in October 2019 when the user of a libertine site reported that a man proposed that his daughter, then 12 years old, be associated with sexual intercourse with his wife. Without a criminal record or addiction problem, the former magistrate admitted to having written these messages, but affirmed that they were “fantasies that he would never have materialized”. Also a magistrate, his wife had been exonerated from the end of her police custody. During the hearing in mid-February, the defense had insisted on a “trauma” linked to a case, that of the multi-recidivist Pierre Bodein, nicknamed “Pierrot le fou”, sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment for three savage murders and two rapes committed in 2004. The defendant, who claimed to have had suicidal thoughts and anxiety attacks afterwards, was general counsel during the assize trial of Pierre Bodein in 2007, shortly after the birth of his daughter.
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