THE COURT Whereas, according to the interrogation statement No 4815 dated 25.11.2019, … was brought before this Court, in any event before the prescription of the criminal action, on allegations to have committed in Pikine in 2018, by violence, coercion, threat, acts of sexual penetration on ….; to have committed in the same circumstances, gestures, touching and caressing for sexual purposes on the above- mentioned minor; Offences provided for and punished by articles 320 and 320 bis of the Penal Code; ON MERITS On the criminal action Whereas while he was interrogated the suspect denied the facts; Whereas the public prosecutor applied for 2 years of imprisonment for the suspects; Considering that during public hearing, the facts the suspect is accused of are rather acts of abduction of a minor and that it is appropriate to categorize them as such and sentence the accused to 3 months of imprisonment; On Civil damages Whereas the amount of 1 million FCFA claimed by …for civil; that it is appropriate to order the payment of the said amount; FOR THESE REASONS Ruling publicly in the presence of parties in correctional matters and at first instance;          Categorizes the offence the suspect is accused of as abduction of a minor; Declares the accused guilty of this offence; Sentences him to 3 months of imprisonment; Declares admissible the civil action of… representing ….; Grants him 1 million of FCFA as reparation; Orders the accused to pay the said amount; Orders provisional execution of the sentence; Orders the offender to pay the costs; Sets the enforcement by committal period to maximum;