An osteopath from Pontarlier (Doubs) was indicted for acts of rape or sexual assault on three patients and placed under judicial supervision, said the public prosecutor of Besançon on Thursday.
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The 29-year-old man “
admits to having placed his hand on the pelvic area and on that of the perineum for therapeutic acts - without any collection of informed consent from the patients - but he formally disputes any act of sexual penetration on these three women.
», Said Etienne Manteaux during a press conference.
This professional who worked for four years in a Pontarlier cabinet was indicted Wednesday for rape and sexual assault by a person in authority.
He was placed under judicial supervision with a ban on exercising his activity while the case was being investigated.
The three victims aged 29 to 53, two of whom denounce facts of penetration with the fingers and one of the facts of sexual assault, "
trusted this practitioner
", according to the magistrate.
"
They found themselves in the same situation of astonishment: with a health professional, we are not in a relationship of equals
", he stressed.
The police officers in charge of the investigation are looking for possible other victims.
The Besançon prosecutor's office and the commander of the Pontarlier police station, Armand Trousseau, call on "
people who have complaints about acts they consider to have gone wrong to come forward to the Pontarlier police station
".
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