A man indicted for raping minors from his own family in Agen

A man was indicted on Wednesday in Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) for "rape of minors committed in the family circle" and for "possession and dissemination of child pornography images", according to the city prosecutor's office, confirming information from

According to the daily, the man, a "thirty-something living in the vicinity of Souillac" (Lot), was arrested on Wednesday and then transferred to the Agen prosecutor's office, a pole of which oversees criminal investigations in the Lot-et-Garonne departments of Gers and Lot.

Against him, "the qualification of incestuous rape was retained", specified the prosecution, confirming that he was suspected of rape on his son or even his son-in-law, but without being able to provide more details on the nature of the facts, the period concerned by these acts or the age of the victims.

Two victims aged 18 months and 3 years

According to the regional daily, the two victims were 18 months and 3 years old at the time of the events, which date back to 2018. The individual "staged and filmed the rapes, before broadcasting them on the net", specifies the newspaper. .

These pedophile images disseminated online were first spotted by Australian investigation services which then contacted the French authorities.

The judicial investigation opened on all of these facts was entrusted to an investigating judge from Agen.

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