Pimping of minors: "Some customers were the age of his grandfather", says a mother

Marion Gauthier 10:32 a.m., May 04, 2022

Aline is a battered mother.

At 14, her daughter was prostituted by her companion who was three years older than her.

The nightmare will last a year and the truth will come out when a tragedy occurs.

The teenager "lied" to her companion, telling him "that her dad had died and that her mom had kicked her out".

At the start of their relationship, her 17-year-old companion told her that she was the woman of his life and that they were going to get married.

"But on the other hand, for us to be able to get married, we're going to need money," he would have told her one day.

"At first, she did it out of love and then, little by little, out of obligation."

"I couldn't read the minutes until the end"

It was the firefighters who revealed to Aline the terrible life led by her daughter, a minor at the time of the events.

"One day he almost killed her and left her for dead. Around 9 p.m. the fire department called me and said, 'We have your daughter with us and apparently she got hit by her spouse.'" But at no time will the girl speak of "prostitution".

It is with the police that Aline will discover the dark truth.

"I read the minutes. Afterwards, I'm not going to lie to you, I didn't read until the end. I didn't get there."

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This mother evokes the age of the clients.

"She was about her grandfather's age. What they were asking her to do...I stopped, I signed."

If Aline has agreed to speak at the microphone of Europe 1, an omerta reigns within her family.

"I didn't talk about it with her, I just showed her that I was there and that we were ready to do anything for her to get out of it," she said.

"They stole her childhood. Somehow, I feel guilty because I tell myself that I failed to understand my daughter."