A former magistrate, who suggested that Internet users rape his 13-year-old daughter, was sentenced Monday, September 30 in Paris to three years in prison with suspended probation following a third trial, we learned from a judicial source, confirming information from the site Reflets.info.
Vice-president of the Dijon judicial court at the time of the facts and since removed from the judiciary, he had proposed sexual relations on libertine sites with his 13-year-old daughter between October 2019 and June 2020, without however taking the act.
In March 2022, the Besançon criminal court sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment, one of which was closed, for instigation of the corruption of a minor without follow-up and instigation to commit rape of a minor without follow-up.
A few months later, the Besançon Court of Appeal found him guilty of the first count, but acquitted of the second due to a problem of criminal classification. This father of three children had his sentence reduced to two years in prison, suspended.
Then in June 2023, the Court of Cassation annulled his acquittal for the offense of inciting the commission of rape, while making definitive his guilt for inciting the corruption of a minor.
Monday September 30, the court of appeal declared the former magistrate guilty of the two offenses and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment with a probationary suspension of three years (i.e. accompanied by obligations to be respected during this period, in particular an obligation of care).
His parental authority over his daughter was withdrawn and he was banned from exercising a profession in contact with minors for 10 years, but also registered in the register of perpetrators of sexual offenses (Fijais).
The case started in October 2019 when the user of a libertine site reported that a man was offering to involve his daughter, then 12 years old, in sexual activity with his wife.
With no criminal record or addiction problem, the magistrate admitted to having written these messages but spoke of “fantasies (…) never materialized”. His proposal was not followed by action and his wife, also a magistrate, was exonerated following her custody.