Two women and a man, retried on appeal for having kidnapped, martyred and raped a young woman, slightly mentally deficient, in 2015 in Verdun (Meuse), saw their sentence greatly increased on Friday, November 13 by the Moselle Assize Court , up to 30 years of criminal imprisonment.
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The Assize Court has just delivered its verdict: 30 years of criminal imprisonment for my client,
" Laetitia Dupont, said his lawyer Me Étienne Mangeot, saying he was "
stunned
" by this verdict in accordance with the requisitions of the Advocate General.
Rejected alongside Laetitia Dupont, Manuel Pasquereau saw his sentence increased to 28 years in prison and Caroline Denisart at 20 years.
During the trial at first instance in February 2019 before the Assize Court of Meurthe-et-Moselle which concerned six people in total, Laetitia Dupont and Manuel Pasquereau, considered to be the most violent towards Cassandra, the victim suffering from 'a slight mental deficit, had been sentenced to 18 years of criminal imprisonment and Caroline Denisart to 15 years.
Nancy's attorney general had appealed against these three convictions.
The victim, Cassandra, then 20 years old, had revealed her ordeal in March 2015 arriving at the hospital with a swollen face, shaved head, skeletal and dirty.
In the previous days, she had been threatened with death and strangled twice.
For thirteen days, she was kidnapped, tied up, beaten, raped, burned, deprived of food, hygiene and care, twice forced to submerge in the Meuse.
Some abuse was photographed and filmed.
The young girl, who had left her host family for an apprenticeship contract in Verdun, had met the Dupont-Denisart couple.
After extorting his money, the two women had requested Pasquereau's assistance in administering a series of violence to him, in retaliation for an alleged theft.
According to the Lorraine Republican, the lawyers of Manuel Pasquereau and Caroline Denisart have decided to appeal in cassation.
