A 16-year-old boy has been charged with aggravated sexual assault on a six-year-old girl. The father of the victim beat the alleged attacker, inflicting 10 days of ITT according to the prosecution.
An investigation was opened on Tuesday against a father, who hit the alleged sexual aggressor of his six-year-old daughter, according to information from BFMTV, confirmed at Figaro. The 16-year-old is suspected of sexual assault against a six-year-old girl in Roanne (Loire) and was indicted and imprisoned on Sunday evening. “The teenager who was placed in pre-trial detention by decision of the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD), in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, was indicted for aggravated sexual assault on a minor under the age of 15, within the framework of the judicial information that has been opened“, told AFP the public prosecutor of Roanne, Abdelkrim Grini.
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The alleged attacker indicted
The girl’s father, helped by three other people (neighbors and friends) who had set up surveillance, arrested the alleged attacker on the night of Friday to Saturday when he was trying, according to them, to climb a fence of his property in Roanne shortly before 3am. During the night from Thursday to Friday, the victim’s mother found herself face to face with a young man leaving her daughter’s room, located on the 1st floor of their house, who had just been sexually touched.
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“After showing the photo of the young man to the girl’s mother, who formally recognized him, they beat him up, causing him a total interruption of work (ITT) of 10 days, before calling the police.“Lamented to AFP the public prosecutor of Roanne, Abdelkrim Grini. Treated at Roanne hospital, the teenager, an isolated minor who had been living for a fortnight in a specialized structure close to the house, was then placed in police custody and presented to an investigating judge on Sunday but denies the facts with which he is charged.
The prosecution decided to take action and also opened an investigation against the father. It relates to facts of “aggravated violence in meetings committed with a weapon by destination”. He faces three to ten years in prison. No complaints have been lodged at this time.
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