The individual, residing in Saint-Juéry, a town near Albi, had been the subject of a report after his IP address was identified by the cybergendarmes.
A 40-year-old man living in the Tarn was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention for having raped his own daughter and filmed these sexual assaults, we learned on Tuesday from the Toulouse prosecutor’s office.
The suspect’s IP address was “involved in the downloading of more than 16,000 child pornography files between May and November 2022”, indicates a press release from the national gendarmerie released on Tuesday.
Placed in pre-trial detention
The search and examination of his computer equipment, following his arrest on December 14, confirmed the possession of child pornography images and led to “the discovery of videos of sexual assaults and rapes committed on his own minor daughter,” the statement added.
The girl was 9 and 10 years old at the time of the events, said the Toulouse prosecutor’s office. The father was indicted on December 16 for “incestuous rape of a minor under 15”, “capture and possession of child pornography”, “sexual assault” and immediately placed in pre-trial detention.
