Judged by the Criminal Court of Herault, he was accused of “rapes by surprise through the use of an electronic communication network”.
Le Monde
He was charged with “rapes by surprise thanks to the use of an electronic communication network”, to have passed for another and have made love with women, to whom he had asked for Band their eyes to hide its true identity.
Jack S., sexuagenarian at the time of the facts and aged 74 today, was convicted of “rape” and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment, Friday, October 29, by the Criminal Court of the Hérault . In the morning, the Prosecution had required twelve years of criminal imprisonment.
Back on the facts
Jack S., the sixty advanced at the time of the facts, former graduate of fine arts, three times married, three times divorced, vivotive as artisan decorator in Nice and Monaco, which frantically scums dating sites looking for dating sites Sexual partners. It creates an avatar, Anthony Laroche, draws photos of his profile in a catalog of mannequins for clothes Marlboro, gives him an age – 37 or 38 years – the home of an attractive profession – “Decorator in Monaco”, “Gallerist of art “,” photographer “,” interior architect “- and a diligent sports practice.
On the other, hundreds of women – 342, according to the investigation so registered on dating sites, aged 19 to 50 years. They are single, divorced or just separated, with or without children. The beautiful Anthony Laroche contacts them, they answer, the conversation is committed. For more privacy, exchanges are continuing on social networks, then on the phone. We discuss for several days, often several weeks, we confide on his life and on his desires, we send each other by SMS or Whatsapp des (real) photos of intimate parts and masturbation videos. Most women solicit an appointment in a bar or restaurant. Their interlocutor declines, invents pretexts to always postpone the deadline. Others, careful, want him to light his webcam to continue talking to them. He refuses.
At all, Jack S. Alias ”Anthony Laroche”, on the other hand, proposes to concretize the meeting at home, in his apartment of the Promenade des Anglais, in Nice. “The restaurant is too daddy mom,” he says. He has a dream to sell. This will be fifty shades of Gray – the erotic bestseller published in 2012 – for real, it makes them mirror. Three hundred and eighteen women contacted do not follow. Twenty-four of them let themselves be taken at the game of the “Magic Meeting” that the (true) velvety voice of Jack S. What (false) image of the sublime decorator in Monaco.
Each of these women accepts the scenario that Jack S. introduced them: come home, ring the intercom, find on the fifth floor the open door, to be guided by his voice to the room of baths, undressing, put a headband on the eyes and finally join it in its room.
The apartment is dubious hygiene, the ashtrays are full, the dust covers ancient furniture, on the doily of a table somnole a faience dog. “I had the impression of arriving at a grandmother,” says one. “It felt the cigarette, the Rance, the old man,” says another. Some stop there and turn around. The others pass in addition to this first and vague disappointment and continue to obey the voice that offers them to use a glass of wine. They are stripping, bandaged with the airline mask prepared for them, move up to the room immersed in the dark, let yourself be tied to bed with a bathrobe belt. The setpoint is strict, they must not touch their partner, under risk of “punishment”.
The sexual relationship is happening. The visitor removes his headband. And discover, like so many others before her and after her, “an old man with a wrinkled skin and with a breeding belly”. Most disappear and keep their “shame” for them and the feeling of being “dupée”, “betrayal”, “blurred”, “Salie”, “dirty”.
In front of the criminal court, the complainants said they were deceived. Jack S., him, had defended himself by saying that they did not want to be reversed.