The director of the National Center for Distance Education (Cned) in Toulouse was sentenced Thursday to a one-year suspended prison sentence for sexual exhibition in front of children.
On May 7, this 45-year-old defendant engaged in sexual exhibition during a football tournament in Toulouse, attended by 600 children aged six to nine.
Follower of "chemsex"
He was then molested, then immobilized by witnesses before his arrest by the police.
This man, married and follower of "chemsex" - the practice of consuming psychotropic products to intensify sexual acts - acknowledged all the facts at the hearing of the Toulouse court.
“I went to a man's house for sex and to take narcotics.
I lost my memory.
It only comes back to me when I take hits
,” he said.
The defendant had taken GHB, the
“rape drug”
.
Depressed, he explained that the cocktail of anxiolytics and narcotics would have caused
“a total loss of consciousness”.
He also received a ban on having any activity in contact with minors, as well as a registration in the file of perpetrators of sexual offences.
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The prosecution had requested three years of socio-judicial follow-up with treatment orders, the prohibition of any activity in contact with minors, compensation for victims and registration in the file of sex offenders.
“Overwork, isolation during confinement, depression and taking narcotics”
: his lawyer, Me Caroline Limasset-Protin, attributed his actions to several factors.
"He was not in his normal state,"
she pleaded.
