2023-11-30 17:59:00
The Walloon Brabant Assize Court on Thursday sentenced Kévin Deffense, a resident of Genappe born in 1991, to 18 years in prison. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, he was found guilty of torture, of having inflicted inhuman treatment as well as assault and battery, in July 2021, on his five-year-old goddaughter.
Although he denied it since the beginning of the investigation, citing an accident, the accused deliberately plunged the girl into a bath of too hot water, which caused second degree burns on 10% of her body. the victim.
The trial of Kévin Deffense before the Assizes of Walloon Brabant – “It is clearly an act of torture” insists the attorney general
In the morning, Advocate General Yves Moreau asked the court not to recognize any mitigating circumstances once morest Kévin Deffense, and requested that he be sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the judgment rendered Thursday evening, the court still retained some mitigating circumstances: the absence of a criminal record of the defendant, his family situation, the absence of mental disorder, his possibilities of reintegration and his narcissistic fragility noted by the experts.
However, the judgment also underlines the particular seriousness of the acts committed by the accused on his own five-year-old goddaughter, the contempt of the accused for the physical and psychological integrity of the victim, and the extreme pain inflicted on the victim. child, who will have the following-effects of the events throughout his life.
After pronouncing 18 years of imprisonment on the accused, President Marie-France Keutgen clarified to Kévin Deffense that this was a sentence which was likely to make him aware of the seriousness of the his actions, but also making it possible to organize a release from prison not too far away, the accused having a place in society where he can reintegrate. “It’s up to you to do everything possible to make this possible,” the president told the accused.
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