Evangelical Baptist Church pastor sentenced for failure to report rape
a judgment was rendered this Tuesday, December 13 at the Orléans criminal court.
The pastor of the church evangelical Baptist from Orléanais who was prosecuted for failure to denounce crimes. In this case, rapes committed by Philippe Forest, a maths teacher, very involved in the life of this community Protestant.
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Philippe Forest was sentenced last March by the Loiret Assize Court to 16 years of criminal imprisonment for rape and sexual assault committed against three young men, two of whom were minors at the time of the events.
justice, and the victims blame the church pastor evangelical Baptist of Orléans for not having denounced his crimes, even though he had confided in him.
During the hearing last November, the man of the church said: “he admitted to me that he had messed up, but there was ambiguity about the age of the victims and their possible consent, I made the mistake of not digging into it“. He was content to convene a council of elders which withdrew his responsibilities from Philippe Forest.
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