A 56-year-old Creusois, accused of having raped his partner's sister when she was a minor, was sentenced on Wednesday September 21 to 10 years' imprisonment before the department's assize court, AFP learned from parquet.
This sheep farmer, tried since Monday, September 19, also received 20,000 euros in damages.
On the stand, the accused admitted to sexual intercourse but consented: “
She said that I was the man of her life but I was drunk so I gave in to her advances
”, he declared. .
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The investigation had also revealed that he was the father of the child of the young woman, who became pregnant when she was only 14 years old.
The young girl had become closer to her attacker, married to her sister, on the death of her father.
The first assaults, ranging from caresses to sexual relations, began when she was only 12 years old, sometimes even in the sheepfold.
Falling pregnant two years later, she undergoes a denial of pregnancy and becomes aware of it only after four and a half months.
Placed in a home after giving birth, she becomes aware of the influence of her brother-in-law and the non-consensual nature of this relationship.
She decides to put an end to it and file a complaint.
But the man threatens her, insults her publicly and distributes photos of the naked girl in her high school.
In detention for almost three years in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, the fifty-year-old preferred to call his sister-in-law "
a seductive
".
A defense supported by several testimonies from the family of the accused.
The victim's family members said they did not see or hear anything.
Thursday, the Advocate General had requested twelve years of imprisonment.
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