The 56-year-old man, tried since Monday, was also fined 20,000 euros.
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A 56-year-old man from Creus, accused of raping his partner’s sister when she was only 12, was sentenced on Wednesday September 21 to ten years’ imprisonment by the Creuse Assize Court. . This sheep farmer, tried since Monday, September 19, also received 20,000 euros in damages. The Advocate General had requested twelve years of imprisonment.
The man should not appeal this verdict according to his lawyer, reveals France Bleu Creuse, who also specifies that he has already served three years in prison in Limoges.
At the bar, the accused admitted sexual intercourse, but he assures that they were consented. “She said I was the man of her life but I was drunk so I gave in to her advances”did he declare.
The investigation had also revealed that he was the father of the child of the young woman, who became pregnant when she was only 14 years old. The young girl had become closer to her attacker, married to her sister, on the death of her father. The first assaults, ranging from caresses to sexual relations, began when she was only 12 years old. Falling pregnant two years later, she undergoes a denial of pregnancy and becomes aware of it only after four and a half months.
Placed in a home after giving birth, she becomes aware of the influence of her brother-in-law and the non-consensual nature of this relationship. She decides to put an end to it and file a complaint. But the man threatens her, insults her publicly and distributes photos of the naked girl in her high school.