A 29-year-old football coach, a repeat offender, was sentenced on Tuesday to six years in prison for sexual assault against a nine-year-old boy, we learned on Wednesday from a judicial source. The facts, as reported by Progressdate back to between May 2020 and April 2021 when this man slept in the same room as the child when he was invited to his parents’ home in the Lyon region.
The prosecution had requested a six-year sentence and the revocation of a probationary suspension pronounced in 2020 by the Lyon criminal court, which had sentenced him for acts of touching minors to three years in prison suspended.
The man admitted at Monday’s hearing to his “attraction to children»
Despite a ban on carrying out an activity related to minors, which is now definitive, the man, who admitted at Monday’s hearing his “attraction to childrenand declared that he “can’t grow“, was a football coach for children under ten in the Saint-Etienne region. The court also pronounced against him a registration in the Automated judicial file of perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses (Fijais), a socio-judicial follow-up and a five-year ineligibility sentence, as well as a treatment order under penalty of two additional years in prison.
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