The Bas-Rhin criminal court, an exceptional jurisdiction without a popular jury but with five professional judges, sentenced a man to seventeen years of criminal imprisonment on Tuesday. Aged 40, this father was prosecuted for the rape of his two and a half year old daughter as well as for violence against the little victim, report The Latest News from Alsace.
The child was taken to the emergency room for bleeding in the genitals. The accused, who has since had his parental authority withdrawn, then indicated that she had injured herself with a toy in her bath then that he had penetrated her with a finger while she was slipping. Arguments dismantled by experts in view of the little girl’s injuries.
Prosecuted for failure to report these serious facts, the man’s wife, 35, received three years’ imprisonment, including two and a half years suspended.