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
Le Progrès
, date 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 court went well beyond the requisitions of the prosecution, which had requested a six-month prison sentence and the revocation of a probationary stay of two years, pronounced in 2020 by the Lyon criminal court which had sentenced him for acts of touching minors.
"I can't grow up"
Despite a ban on exercising an activity related to minors, now definitive, the man, who admitted at Monday's hearing his "attraction for children" and declared that he "cannot grow up" , was a football coach for under-10s 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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