DALOA COURT OF APPEAL 2ND PRE-TRIAL CHAMBER JUDGMENT No158 OF 21 MARCH 2013 THE PROSECUTOR VERSUS 1/ Z.I 2/ Z.B Violation of moral norms – Sexual indecency - Sexual indecency committed on a 15-year-old girl – Victim subjugated using threat. By confirming the conviction of the defendants, the first judges made a good assessment of the facts, considering that, to achieve their goal of sexually abusing their victim, one of the defendants persuaded her to accompany him into the school compound, and coerced her with a knife into having sex with him and his friends. THE COURT Having regard to the documents in the file for the proceedings; Having listened to the Prosecutor; Considering the statement of facts, procedure, claims and arguments of the parties and the motives below; After having deliberated in accordance with the law; ACCUSATION Zl and ZB were brought before the Daloa Criminal Court, following the flagrante delicto procedure, on the accusation of having in Daloa, 23 April, 2010, committed a sexual offence with violence; With these circumstances that the aforementioned offence was committed on a 15-year-old girl with the help of several persons; Offence provided for and punishable under articles 355 points 2 and 3 and 359 of the penal code; FACTS AND PROCEDURES On 27 April, 2010, ZG, accompanied by his daughter GC, seized the Daloa city gendarmerie brigade with a complaint against ZI, GG, BS and KH for having sexually abused his daughter, aged thirteen (13) years; He explained that on the night of 23 April, 2010, his daughter was sexually abused, as attested by the medical certificate dated 26 April, 2010, by the aforementioned while she was returning from a funeral vigil held in the neighboring village of Bébouo; 1