The septuagenarian was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for rape by surprise, after seduced several women via a false profile on dating sites.
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The Criminal Court of Herault said Jack S., 74, guilty of rape by surprise and sentenced it, Friday, October 29, to eight years’ imprisonment. In the morning, the Advocate General, Robert Bartoletti, had required twelve years of criminal imprisonment.
The five professional magistrates have caught his guilt for the two civilians who attended the hearing, Oriana S. and Marie-Hélène L., as well as for a third woman, Nathalie S., who had constituted At the beginning of the case but which was neither present nor represented. The President had read his testimony, in which she indicated to have lived the same scenario as the other women – contact via a dating site, exchange of messages, an erotic appointment at the accused’s home, wearing a mask On the eyes for the partner – but stated that she had not seen the tuition that when she returned a second time.
The verdict of guilt did little doubts because of the tone of the debates since Monday, October 25th. Against the opinion of his lawyer, M e Laurent Poumarede, Jack S. had accepted the proposal made to him to appear before a criminal court – competent to judge the crimes punishable by twenty years of imprisonment – and not before a court of assize. He hoped then, he said, that professional judges would be “less sensitive to morality” than the citizen jurors. The five magistrates of the Court of Herault, above all, appeared, upon the opening of the debates, very sensitive to their colleagues from the Court of Cassation and well determined not to thwart them.
They have indeed applied to the letter the case law established by the judgment of 23 January 2019, which had broken the ordinance of non-place pronounced in the file Jack S. by the Court of Appeal of Aix- En-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône). This judgment considers that “the use of a ploy for conceal the identity and physical characteristics of its author to surprise the consent of a person and obtain from her an act of sexual penetration” constitutes well “the surprise” which enters the constituent elements of rape within the meaning of Article 222-23 of the Penal Code.
Very partial prosecutions
The principle posed by this judgment, however, poses a question to which the trial of Jack S. did not respond. If the accused, then sixty years old, was guilty of “rape by surprise” using a ploy – his inscription on dating sites under the false identity of Anthony Laroche and the false photo of a 38-year-old mannequin – to convince women to accept a sexual meeting at home, so the logic would have been to pursue it for all those who have had the same story and not for the only complainants who Civilized Parties.
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