The mothers of the two plaintiffs are suspected of having encouraged their daughters, then teenagers, to have relations with Jean-Luc Lahaye and would then have asked them to conceal the facts.
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The mother of one of the young women who filed a complaint against the singer Jean-Luc Lahaye for rape and sexual assault was indicted on Thursday January 27 for not having denounced the facts, announced his lawyer. “After a painful interrogation, my client was indicted for non-denunciation of a crime”, said Vincent Demory in a press release sent to AFP. “She does not intend to challenge it. She was prepared for it and understands its full significance.”
“My client recalls her affection for her mother”, said Nathalie Bucquet, lawyer for the two complainants. The hearing of the mother of the other complainant, who was also initially summoned for an indictment by the judge in charge of the investigation, was postponed “sine die” due to her state of health, a reported his lawyer Chantal Corbier d’Hauteville. The two mothers are suspected of having encouraged their daughters, then teenagers, to have relations with Jean-Luc Lahaye and would then have asked them to conceal the facts. On Monday, the singer’s daughter, now 69, was indicted for “witness tampering” in this investigation, suspected of having pressured the complainants to keep quiet.
The star of the 1980s was indicted on November 5 in Paris in particular for “rape and sexual assault of minors over the age of 15” after the denunciations of the two young women, born in 1998 and 2000. The alleged facts, qu he contests, would have started in 2013. Already convicted for offenses with minors in 2007 and 2015, he was remanded in custody.