Twelve young people, tried for the gang rape of a teenager in Saint-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne) in 2013, were sentenced on Friday to terms of up to seven years in prison by the assize court for minors of Essonne, said the prosecution of Evry.
Seven young people were found guilty of “group rape” and were sentenced to seven or six years' imprisonment, with a warrant of committal at the hearing.
A young acquitted
Three others were sentenced to five years in prison, including one year suspended for "complicity in gang rape" and another to two years including six months suspended for "abstaining from preventing a crime".
The twelfth youth was acquitted.
All were minors at the time of the events, in May 2013. The victim, a 17-year-old girl at the time, claims to have been raped in a public park in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois by numerous individuals.
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On Thursday, the Advocate General had requested sentences ranging from two years suspended to seven years in prison.
"The assize court for minors sent men to prison almost ten years after the events, most of them socially integrated, for some fathers, to firm sentences that could not be adjusted"
, commented to AFP a lawyers, Me Yaël Scemama.
According to her,
"almost all recognized the seriousness of the facts, their guilt and expressed their regrets and their empathy with regard to the victim".
