acknowledged them after some hesitation; he explained that in the evening of July 11, 2018, he went to his friend S.C.'s house where he and other friends used to sleep; that he found him inside the room with O.R.; that around 10 p.m., he came back and found O.R. again, but this time with three other boys, namely- S. M, Daou and Moumouni; that his four friends told the girl that they wanted to have sexual relations with her; that, as she objected, his companions beat her up and forced her to wash the clothes of one of them; that the victim's crying attracted someone to whom he asked to go home simply because nothing was happening; answering the question of the judicial police officer, O. I acknowledged that he and his friends successfully had sex with O.R. that day and before; Upon completion of the investigation, the procedure was transmitted to the State counsel of Faso at the High Court of Bobo-Dioulasso; before this authority, O.I. retracted his statement and declared that he had not performed any sexual act with the victim; he said that he had made a false confession, as a result of the bullying; he added that his friends S.C, S.M. and the man named D. wanted to have sexual relations with the victim and, when she objected, they beat her. The Legal Department then brought proceedings against O.I. for rape before the Juvenile Court judge and issued a provisional custody order against him; At the hearing of February 14, 2019, the case was retained and judged; the civil party and its legal representatives did not appear; the witness K.S. did not appear either; the accused O.I. retracted again; he declared that when he arrived at S.C.'s home, he was there with three other friends alongside O.R; that they were lying with the young girl on a mat; the accused, after initially maintaining that his friends told him on his arrival that they had had consensual sexual relations with the victim, retracted his statement and declared that on his arrival, his friends instead told him that they had forced sexual relations with the victim; he added that they showed him her dirty underpants; that he lifted it up, held it up in the air and tried to film it because his friends told him that the girl was not clean; that because she was against his will to film, his friends beat her up; that a person showed up after hearing the screaming and crying of the victim and he asked him to leave because nothing was happening; 3