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Since a law of 2021, there can be no sexual consent from a child under the age of 15. The text was triggered by a case dating from 2017, in which a 28-year-old man claimed to have had consensual sex with an 11-year-old girl. Five years after the facts, he is facing justice.
She is 17 years old and was 11 at the time. Since Wednesday, November 2, at the court in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), the teenager, always accompanied by her psychologist, faces the man she accuses of rape, a father of about thirty. years who claims to have had a consensual relationship with her at the time. The affair had aroused emotion and indignation.
The facts date back to April 24, 2017 in Montmagny (Oise). The 11-year-old schoolgirl meets the 28-year-old man. He claims to have ignored her age and that she consented to sexual intercourse. She claims to have indicated her age, and to have been unable to react. In 2018, a first hearing took place for an offense of sexual abuse. This is then too little for associations and politicians.
The President of the Republic seizes the debate and a law is voted, without any vote against. Since then, there can be no consensual sexual intercourse before the age of 15. This case changed everything. The penal law not being retroactive, the man will be judged according to the old texts, but well for rape. The verdict is expected Friday.