Sentenced to 30 years in French pedophile who asked to be castrated
Francis Evrard, 63, hasspent half his life in prison for sexually abusing children. In August 2007, just days after his release, kidnapped a child under five years in the city of Roubaix, in northern Iraq, locked him in a garage, was drugged and raped her.
On Friday, a French court sentenced him to 30 years, of which 20 are mandatory judicial and medical supervision. The prosecutor sought life imprisonment, including 22 years of compulsory, and monitor an unlimited period.
On Monday the trial opened, Evrard admittedly broke the little Enis, shortly after after leaving prison after serving 18 years for similar crimes.
Shortly before the jury retired to deliberate, the man, who since 1975 has been convicted three times for statutory rape or indecent assault, went to court.
I'm a nice guy, I know that I have done wrong to the small Denis and his father, he said. I want to be judged with humanity and not be treated as a monster, he said.
His lawyer attributed some of the responsibility to the judicial and prison system.
Francis Evrard became a time bomb for any errors, mismanagement, limited interest of justice and doctors, said Jerôme Pianezza. Justice, doctors knew that Francis Evrard was particularly dangerous, was abandoned as a great activity on the streets of Roubaix, he said.
Pianezza reported several errors, including the inmate was prescribed with the sexual stimulant Viagra desalting a month before prison, something justified by the doctor because they had access to his criminal file.
Counsel for the father of Enis, Emmanuel Riglaire, said Thursday it would ask the state accountable once the process.
DISCUSSION
The case caused such outrage in French public opinion, that the Government was quick to draw a new law in 2008 by allowing the authorities to keep offenders in prison after his conviction when we consider that can remain a threat to society.
The new law was criticized by lawyers and human rights activists who said it challenged the fundamental principles of justice, but now the Government refers to the case of Evrard to justify the adoption of new measures against repeat sex offenders .
A few days before trial, Evrard Nicolas Sarkozy wrote to the president asking for the castration of his testicles to release him from his impulses pedophiles. Surgical castration is illegal in France and the president has made public statements on the request of Evrard.
The victim's father five years Evrard denounced the letter as a mount for obtain a more lenient sentence, saying it made the request two years after his crime, but just days before trial.
France, along with other European countries including Sweden and Denmark, and allows the chemical castration or the use of drugs to inhibit the sexual desires of offenders who agree to take them.
Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, said the option of castration physics should be discussed also in Parliament.
(Reporting by Pierre Savary, editing by Madrid Writing, editing by Elizabeth Piper Spanish)