The judges handed down a sentence twice that required by the prosecution against a perpetrator of sexual assault on a minor. JC, 53, was therefore sentenced to three years in prison on December 17 by the Saint-Martin local court.
In view of the nature of the events which took place last month, "the file was added urgently to this hearing," said the court. This rapid enlistment was also to allow JC, a national of the Dominican Republic and subject to a deportation to the border by the prefecture, to appear at the bar of the court *. But he did not do it. "He returned home without any sanction", commented in tears the mother of the minor, presents her to the hearing as the legal representative of her son, the victim.
On November 5, the mother left for work. Her 13-year-old son is with his auntie. She is away from home in Saint-James for a few minutes to go shopping. The boy is doing his homework on the table in the living room when the neighbor JC arrives. Knowing him well, the boy is not surprised to see him and thinks that his auntie asked him to come and watch him in his absence. But quickly the behavior of the man will frighten him.
JC sits next to him, asks him to go get some petroleum jelly, takes out his penis and begins to masturbate. He asks the child to do the same then to give him a fellatio.
"You have to taste the sex," he told her. He also shows her pornographic videos to show her how to do it.
The child takes advantage of JC going to the bathroom to go and hide in his room and calls his mother in panic. A few minutes later, the mother and the other neighbors show up at the house and hit JC with a hammer in the head. The gendarmes are also alerted. JC is arrested and taken into custody.
During his 48-hour hearing, he first denied the facts before acknowledging them "because he no longer had a choice", comments the lawyer for the civil party.
A national of the Dominican Republic, JC had been in an irregular situation since 2001. His daughter had been involved in a prostitution case, she had been indicted for aggravated pimping in 2017 and transferred to Guadeloupe with a stay ban in Saint-Martin . To this day, she is still in Guadeloupe.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court sentenced JC to a ban from French territory for ten years and issued an arrest warrant. He must also pay 10 euros to the victim and his mother (000 euros each) in respect of non-pecuniary damage suffered as well as 5 euros under article 000-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (soualigapost.com)
* Despite an order to leave the territory, the foreign national is authorized to stay on French territory if he is summoned to court.
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