How many victims?

The husband of a former childminder in the Besançon area has been indicted for six acts of rape and sexual assault on young girls.

However, "this individual is likely to have committed acts in very large numbers" between the years 1970 and 2020, said the prosecutor of Besançon Etienne Manteaux during a press conference.

Investigators from the Besançon-Tarragnoz gendarmerie brigade therefore launched a "call for witnesses and / or victims" to try to identify possible other victims.

A judicial investigation had been opened for rape and sexual assault at the beginning of the year after a young college girl had revealed to have been the victim of sexual assault at her nanny's place, implicating the latter's husband.

Four other women and young women who had been kept by this lady, as well as the couple's granddaughter, also denounced similar facts.

Certain prescribed facts

The childminder's husband, a retired 74-year-old truck driver, was indicted and jailed in August following complaints from the six alleged victims.

But after an article published in the daily

L'Est Républicain

on this affair, a 56-year-old woman claimed to have suffered the same acts in 1973. “This suggests that there are perhaps many, many others. victims, ”said the prosecutor.

"For this lady, the facts are prescribed but that does not prevent from launching an investigation and it is quite useful for former victims to come forward to understand the extent of the facts", added Etienne Manteaux.

The childminder has died

This man who was domiciled in the Montrapon district of Besançon with his maternal assistant wife, before moving in 1978 to Saône, a town in the Bisontine agglomeration.

The maternal assistant died in early May 2021 from cancer.

She could not be heard on the facts.

"The accused is accused of sexual assault and rape on minors aged between 5 and 12 years mainly, female", specifies the gendarmes who can be contacted at 03.81.81.32.23 or by email (cob.besancon- tarragnoz@gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr).

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