Since the revelations of the young girl who we will call Marie, aged 11 at the time, the young man towards whom the in-laws had no reproaches to make has become persona non grata within the family home located in Moyenneville where he was welcomed like a member of the family from the first confinement.
A situation which did not prevent the couple formed by Mathias Lasseretborn May 26, 2003, and the victim’s half-sister, today parents of a one-year-old child, to continue their life as a couple, by moving in together after Marie’s statements.
Unlike her parents, the defendant’s half-sister and partner does not believe Marie’s accusations, who, according to her, seeks to attract attention and retain her in her plan to leave the family home to live with Mathias.
College reporting
Marie had just entered 6th grade at the time of the events which allegedly took place between September 1 and 30, 2021 according to the victim’s statements. On December 14, 2021, the young girl arriving in tears at college was heard by the college social worker to whom she revealed sexual assault by her sister’s boyfriend.
She talks to him about kisses on the moutheven on the language And sex repeatedly by the game of a thousand kissesof slaps on the buttocks regular, to have “touched the girl“.
He breaks into the bathroom
The last most memorable scene according to the victim occurred while the young girl was putting on her tights after her shower to go to college. Mathias would have taken advantage of time alone with her to enter the bathroom, undress, insistently offering to take a shower with him and carrying her to rub her against him.
While he takes her to school for the first time being off work following a hand injury, “he couldn’t hold anything, let alone carry the young girl” underlines the defendant’s lawyer, “fears have risen” declares the victim who confides in the college social worker who makes a report. “I was afraid he would do the same to my 6 year old little sister.” declares the victim.
I fell from a height
According to Mathias, “everything is false. I considered her my sister. She always sought attention from me, to be in the center. I’m falling from a height” he declared during his custody. “I was never alone with her. I wondered for a long time” he proclaims at the bar.
For the Public Prosecutor’s Office, if the absence of witnesses makes the sexual assault difficult to characterize, the speeches of the victim, who shows signs of post traumatic stress according to the psychological expertise, remain constant and therefore more credible than those of the accused. Two years including a simple reprieve with a DDSE arrangement as well as a 3-year follow-up to avoid any recurrence are required with obligation to work, care, and a ban on contact and appearing at the victim’s home as well as a ban of any contact with minors.
The defense pleads for acquittal
The defense notes the clean record of its client, until then considered a member of the family. “We dismiss all our hypotheses with one hand” done in three years of nightmare. “From the start, he has been consistent: he did nothing“, pleads the lawyer. “The case could have been dismissed due to lack of witnesses.“. The lawyer pleads relaxed At benefit of the doubt because “you have no evidence to enter into the process of conviction“.
“When my partner asked me for a child, it was very hard to accept because of all that. I am ashamed to be accused of such acts.” concludes the young father.
“Faced with converging indices“, the court ruled guilty of the facts with which he is accused and withheld 18 months suspended prison sentence over a 5-year probationary period, registration for FIGAIS fileineligibility for 2 years, and ban on contact with minors for 5 years. The Civil Party did not request quantified compensation.
The young man has ten days to appeal.
