Tuesday, February 8, Michel *, 76, appeared in correctional for incestuous sexual assaults on minors. The facts took place, for ten years, between January 2003 and December 2012 in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain. His three granddaughters, Émilie, his sister Alice and their cousin Léna, implicate him.
He uses a pendulum to define the areas to tickle
In 2018, Émilie, feeling bad about herself, confides in her high school nurse. Since the age of 6 or 7, she would have regularly suffered the inappropriate actions of her grandfather: wandering hands, kisses, sexual remarks and this almost every Wednesday. Smaller, she was looked after by her grandparents from Tuesday evening to Wednesday evening.
The man took advantage of the absence of his wife who had sewing lessons. In the living room, he blocked her on the ground between the sofa and the table, laid her on her back, took off her pants, passed his hand between her thighs, caressed her sex and her chest. "With your sister it went well," he said. Émilie did not understand what he was doing, what was happening to him. She couldn't say no. Then he threatened her:
You mustn't talk about it, if you talk I'll shoot myself in the head and it will hurt your grandmother and your mother. If you talk I'll go to jail.
the defendantAlice, a little older than her sister, will say that she remembers unusual tickling battles and decides to distance herself. Lena, a little younger, remembers caresses on her sex, her chest, a hand in her pants, but her visits to her grandparents were rarer.
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All three say that Michel used “a pendulum to determine which places he should tickle. It was always the same. »
“I made them happy”
At the hearing, Michel spoke of “simple tickling games”, of “guilis”. And then, he states that Emilie had told him that she had seen porn movies on the Internet with a girlfriend and that she wanted him to touch her breasts and sex and her cousin too.
In short, that the girls of 7, 8 years asked for it.
I had no ulterior motives, no sexual urges, I pleased them, but I felt no pleasure.
The defendant“Have a little decency! »
The prosecutor jumps up: « You vaguely recognize and you charge enormously! Talk about naughty little girls there! What you say to this audience in their presence must be at least as terrible as what you did to them! Have a little decency! ". He adds that if it is true that the little ones had watched porn, his role was to warn the parents. “It is up to the adult to protect the child, to hold his hand to cross the street! ".
Emilie's psychological expertise is the most worrying because she feels great guilt. His revelations destroyed his family, his grandmother after a suicide attempt divorced her. Michel also tried to end his life. For him, the psychiatric conclusions are final: “he trivializes, minimizes, feels neither shame nor guilt”. His suicide attempt is "more to escape the consequences for himself, than out of remorse". What affected him above all "was to be summoned to the gendarmerie".
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Michel gets 3 years including 1 year firm (to be done under electronic bracelet) accompanied by 18 months of probation. He has a ban on activity with minors and eligibility for 5 years. He will have to compensate Émilie for €1,040 in medical expenses because she is being followed by a psychologist and there is a referral to civil interests pending the determination of the height of her damage. He sees himself registered in Fijais.
*Michel, Émilie, Alice and Léna borrowed first names.
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