He would have acted between 2013 and 2017 when he worked as a temporary animator in a leisure center in La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée). A 32-year-old man is to be tried on Wednesday before the Nantes court for the sexual assault of twelve girls aged 3 to 6 at the time of the incident, reports France Bleu Loire Océan.
The affair broke out in the summer of 2017 with the testimony of a little girl who had told her mother that the facilitator kissed her on the mouth and stroked different parts of her body, including her sex. The accused had initially denied facts but the testimonies had accumulated. He had finally recognized in police custody a form of fetishism for tights. According West Francephotos of the victims had been found at his home as well as child pornography videos.
The facts qualified as assaults and not rapes
Placed in pre-trial detention, he was released a year later and placed under judicial supervision. At the time, the investigation opened also targeted alleged acts of rape. But for lack of material elements, the facts were finally reclassified as sexual assaults, the judge in charge of the case therefore opting for correctionalization rather than a trial at the assizes.
According France Bleu Loire Océan, other family complaints, filed since, are still in the hands of justice.