A man tried in Angers for raping 18 children

It is a large-scale child crime case that will be examined from this Monday before the Assize Court of Maine-et-Loire in Angers.

For two weeks, a 28-year-old man will be tried for rape and sexual assault committed on eighteen children, reports

.

The individual is also accused of filming some of the acts and posting the footage on the Darknet.

Among the victims are some of his nephews and nieces, one of whom was only two years old, whom the defendant regularly kept at his home.

“I have always been a pedophile”

The investigation, launched in early 2018 after two reports on the Pharos platform, also revealed that the individual had abused young children while he was in stage in nursery schools as part of a small CAP training. childhood.

In detention, he would have confessed to the chaplain that he had "always been a pedophile, that he always will be and that he will start again when he gets out of prison", according to Maître Laurence Couvreux, lawyer for victims quoted by

.

He faces twenty years of criminal imprisonment.

Justice

Decision Monday for Jean-Marc Morandini, tried for corruption of minors

Justice

Sexual violence: A victim obtains the conviction of her attacker despite the prescription

• child crime

• Rape

• sexual assault

• Child

• Angers

• Pays de la Loire

• Justice