Whereas S.O and U. F have been found guilty of pimping; that with regards to the fact they are first-time offenders, it would be proper to implement the benevolent article mentioned above and sentence them to a suspended sentence of 18 (eighteen) months and a CFA F 1,500,000 (one million five hundred thousand) each; B- CIVIL ACTION 1. AS TO FORM Whereas subsection 1 of article 203 of the Criminal Procedure Code states that “Civil claim for damages due to a crime, an offence, or a misdemeanour shall be awarded to those who suffered direct physical damages from the offence”; that as it is, C. R suffered damages from S.O’s pimping; that she has the right to sue him for damages; Whereas besides, article 321-43 of the Criminal Procedure Code provides that “in court, under pain of being inadmissible, the claim for damages parallel to prosecution should be done before the submissions of the Legal Department”; as it is, C.R made her claim for damages parallel to prosecution, and as such it would be proper to declare her claim admissible; 2. ON THE MERITS Whereas article 1382 of the Civil Code provides that whatsoever action by a man which causes damages to another binds the former who caused the damage to make reparations; that by the terms of this article, the punishable civil liability of the author is established once there is causality between the offences he committed and damage unto others; Whereas as it is C.R requests that the court orders S.O to pay her CFA F 1,100,000 (one million one hundred thousand) for damages; that in the defence of her claim, she argues that this stood as the sum

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