BOUAKE COURT OF APPEAL BOUAKE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE TOUMODI COURT SECTION JUDGMENT N° 292/2013 OF 11 JULY 2013 THE PROSECUTOR VERSUS A.C Violation of moral norms – Sexual indecency –Sexual indecency committed on a 10-year-old girl - Elements -Conviction. The accused must be declared guilty and sentenced, as he admits to have lured the girl to his room and slept with her. THE COURT According to the interrogation report in the event of flagrante delicto dated 5 July, 2013, AC was brought before the criminal court under the charges of having in Assounvoue, Toumodi Council, during the year 201, committed an act of sexual indecency on NM aged 10 years old; Offence provided for and punishable under article 356 of the penal code; From the documents of the proceedings, it emerges that Mr. NG, who seized the Toumodi Brigade of the National Gendarmerie with a complaint against AC, explains that the latter was designated by the girl NM as having sexually abused her; Questioned during the preliminary investigation, A.C admitted the facts, stating that during the 2012 school holidays, he lured the girl to his room and he slept with her; During the hearings, the accused reiterated his initial admission; The Prosecutor requested against the accused 05 years of imprisonment and a fine of 200,000 F; MOTIVES On the nature of the decision The accused appeared in Court; It is appropriate to rule on the basis of counter argumentation; On the public action It is not disputed, as he himself noted at the bar of the court, that the accused lowered the underwear of the victim and rubbed his manhood on the genitals of the girl until ejaculation; It is appropriate to find A.C guilty of the offense charged against him and to apply on him article 356 of the penal code; 1

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