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complaint with the Police Station of Diamaguene against xxx for pedophilia and
abduction of a minor on her 12-year-old daughter: that she explained that she had been
alerted by the nurse of a clinic where she took her daughter for consultation following her
recurrent illnesses: that she was informed that the girl was the object of sexual touching
and the latter, when questioned by the investigating officers, designated xxx, the guard of
her school and xxx owner of a hotel as being the perpetrators of these acts: that she also,
during the course of the investigation, revealed that xxx took advantage of the break time
and the quietude in the school to lure her into the toilets or his room and began to rub his
penis against her sex; as for xxx he proposed to her and to her other friends xxx, xxx, xxx
and xxx to come to his house next to his hotel to offer them food before he too proceeded
to touch her.
That the young plaintiffs were interrogated both at the preliminary investigation and at
the bar of the court and did not vary in their statements; that xxx maintained that Mr. xxx
found them on the beach with her friends selling sachets of water to invite them to come
to his place to eat pasta and after the meal Mr. xxx would put on shorts to start one by one
rubbing his penis on them; that girl xxx maintained that she did not go back there and
that it only happened to her once.
As for xxx, she confirmed what xxx said by specifying that she was there twice with her
friends but Mr. xxx when making the touching asked them to undress but did not take off
their panties and he also kept his panties on; that Mr. did it to her only once and
afterwards he had given them 1000 Francs to share;
That xxx heard in turn explained, like the other girls, the circumstances in which she
found herself at xxx home while specifying that the latter certainly touched her before
giving them the 1000 Francs but did not cause her injury;
Considering that xxx questioned at the preliminary investigation and at the hearing
denied all the alleged facts by maintaining that the father of xxx was a guard of his hotel
and that the members of his family, namely women and children, used to come to his
house; that according to him the accusation was put together by the wife of his former
guard, who was also the mother of one of the daughters who wanted to arrange for him a
romantic relationship with her friend, which he refused moreover; and that subsequently
because of the pedophilia case tried in Mbour and for which he was granted an acquittal
decision, the parents of these children wanted to take the opportunity to extract money
from him; that he said he never harmed these children and that it was the girls like other
children from Mbattal village who regularly came to his house begging for food; that in
doing so he left them in his kitchen to prepare food before going upstairs;
Considering that xxx, who was only accused by xxx, declared during the investigation
and the hearing proceedings that he admits to the facts, that he explained that he has been