A third trial for a sordid affair. A former magistrate was tried again on Monday in Paris for having suggested that Internet users rape his 13-year-old daughter. Found guilty, he was sentenced to three years in prison with suspended probation, we learned from a judicial source, confirming information from the site Reflections.info.
Vice-president of the Dijon judicial court at the time of the facts and since removed from the bench, he had proposed sexual relations with the young girl on libertine sites between October 2019 and June 2020, without however taking action.
An acquittal canceled by the court of cassation
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.
Parental authority withdrawn
On Monday, the court of appeal declared the former magistrate guilty of the two offenses and sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment with a probationary suspension of three years (i.e. accompanied by obligations to be respected over 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His parental authority over his daughter was withdrawn and he was banned from exercising a profession in contact with minors for 10 years, but also registered in the register of perpetrators of sexual offenses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).
“Fantasies” “never materialized”
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.
Without a criminal record or addiction problem, the magistrate admitted 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.