Valerie Bako won’t go to jail. A case beloved by the French and a symbol of how much remains to be done with regard to domestic and sexual violence. across France ended with happy tears and applause. The acknowledged killer of Daniel PauletteHer ex-stepfather, abusive husband, rapist from 12 years old and pimp from 14 years old, was sentenced to four years in prison, three of them on probation. Since he had already served a year of pre-trial detention, he was released.
A jury at the trial of Valerie Bakot, who was raped at age 12 by Daniel Paulette, who had four children, ultimately granted the Attorney General’s request for clemency and deemed the accused “a victim, very clear.”
“Valerie Baco could not take the life of the one who scared her,” but the ban should be “established without reincarnation,” said Attorney General Eric Jallet in the Court of Sona and Loire at the Center. East of France, says Peace…
BACOT AFFAIR: “This is a new fight for all other women” who are victims of domestic violence. #ValerieBacot applaud when leaving the hall.pic.twitter.com/g1dckwTUXP
When Jalle asked for mercy and reminded the jury that the four children needed their mother, Valerie could not hold back her tears and fainted when the prosecutor demanded that she leave the court at large.
Despite this, the prosecutor demanded five years’ imprisonment with four suspended sentences, and the sentence will be one year shorter, albeit with the same immediate result, for the year of pre-trial detention, which served from October 2017 to October 2018.
The reading of the verdict drew applause in the hall, and some of those closest to the accused did not hold back tears. Jury President Celine Terme emphasized that the jury took into account the “horror” in which Valerie lived for almost a quarter of a century, and that the crime committed in 2016 was caused by “the multiple traumas of her childhood”. …
During a hearing this week, the defense described Bako’s “extreme violence” and emphasized his “fear of seeing the violence continue against his own daughter,” Karlin, who was 14 years old at the time of the murder. According to the mother, the teenager told her that his father began to ask her sexual questions.
More than 700,000 people signed a petition calling for her release, with many claiming the case shows how much more remains to be done to combat domestic violence in France. At least 55 women have already been killed by their current or former partners in 2021.
