A Frenchman sentenced to twenty years in prison for rape of minors in Malaysia

A former French professor in Singapore was sentenced, Tuesday, November 7, in Paris to twenty years of criminal imprisonment, with a two-thirds security period, for sexual violence committed against 25 Malaysian children, aged 10 to 17. , between January 2014 and October 2017.

The Paris Departmental Criminal Court (CCD) followed to the letter the requisitions of the prosecution, which had demanded the maximum penalty provided for by law against Jean-Christophe Quenot.

Abuses on an “industrial scale”

Before the departmental criminal court (CCD), attorney general Aurélien Brouillet mentioned a “atypical file in terms of its scope” by qualifying Jean-Christophe Quenot as “most verbose pedophile” judged in France. He carried out sexual abuse “an industrial scale”, said the attorney general. “We can say without exaggerating that Jean-Christophe Quenot’s life revolved around his pedophilia. He is suspected of having raped at least fifty children in Southeast Asia between the early 1990s and his arrest in flagrante delicto in Bangkok in February 2019.

Arrested and detained in France in March 2019 after having managed to illegally leave Thailand, he is being tried in Paris solely for the events that occurred in Malaysia, the French justice having decided to “split” the different cases in which he is involved.

Before his flight to France, following his arrest in Thailand, the accused had sent packages containing his films and notebooks to his parents’ home in Besançon. Investigators discovered 100,000 photos and videos relating to his “activities” child abuse in Malaysia.