The prosecution has requested 18 years of criminal imprisonment against a French man in his fifties accused of having raped a girl in the Philippines between 2015 and 2017, then shared videos on the internet, this Wednesday in front of the assizes in Tours.
Advocate General Alexandre Kling called for 15 years of socio-judicial follow-up, with treatment orders, and a definitive ban on carrying out an activity in contact with minors.
Against the main defendant, who admitted the facts, while refusing the qualification of rape, the public prosecutor also requested a ban on leaving French territory without the authorization of a sentence enforcement judge.
The magistrate spoke of a “cautious” defendant, who lived in the Philippines and shared videos of his criminal acts on the darknet, following “the manual of the perfect pedophile”.
The suspect is a restaurant owner. He had gone to the Philippines where he had invested in a pizzeria in Dumaguete, on the island of Negros, after leaving the establishment in which he worked in France.
Arrested near Tours in September 2017 on his return to France, the 51-year-old man is being prosecuted for rape of a minor under the age of 15, possession and dissemination of child pornography, and participation in a criminal association in view. preparation for a crime.
The restaurateur’s lawyer asks the jurors to reclassify the rape of a minor, in recourse to the prostitution of a minor, punishable by seven years of imprisonment
Spotted by a cyber-patroller
Spotted by a cyber-patrolman from the Lyon SRPJ on a pedophile forum on the darknet, the accused broadcast at least 14 child pornography videos. He was later identified by French and Australian police.
The victim, aged 9 at the time, was forced into prostitution by her uncle. She had met her alleged attacker in a hotel after taking the plane. She is due to testify Tuesday by videoconference from the Philippines. For these facts, the uncle was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Philippine courts.
In another part of the trial, the 50-year-old told the undercover policeman that he was on a “plan” in France to abuse two young girls aged 5 and 8, on the initiative of the mother of the two children. Except that this “mom” was in fact another man, who appears to him under judicial supervision.
The latter, aged 58, proposed his wife’s daughters using photos of his granddaughters. An appointment had been made between the two men on his return to France. During the hearings, the second man had declared that he had never intended to make this appointment a reality, evoking a “fantasy”.