{"id":35121,"date":"2017-06-13T14:37:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french-soldier-jailed-for-molesting-girls-in\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:37:56","slug":"french-soldier-jailed-for-molesting-girls-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/french-soldier-jailed-for-molesting-girls-in\/","title":{"rendered":"French soldier jailed for molesting girls in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A French soldier has been jailed for a year by a court in Paris for molesting girls aged three and five in a hotel swimming pool in Burkina Faso.}<\/p>\n<p>Sebastien L, 40, and another soldier filmed the abuse and then befriended one of the girls&#8217; mothers, a French woman who invited them to her house.<\/p>\n<p>They left the camera behind and the woman alerted the French embassy after viewing the images.<\/p>\n<p>The two soldiers were immediately suspended and sent back to France.<\/p>\n<p>However only Sebastien L was charged, FranceInfo reported.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted to sexual contact with the girls during the incident in Ouagadougou and was sentenced to a year in prison followed by a one-year suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had no explanation for his behaviour, which he blamed on alcohol and the stress of the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The court also banned him from any profession involving minors for five years and ordered him to pay several thousand euros in damages to the girls and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastien L was in Burkina Faso as part of a French force fighting Islamists in the Sahel region.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20747 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_96454697_mediaitem96454696.jpg\" alt=\"France has a large military presence in its former colonies in West Africa\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A French soldier has been jailed for a year by a court in Paris for molesting girls aged three and five in a hotel swimming pool in Burkina Faso.} Sebastien L, 40, and another soldier filmed the abuse and then befriended one of the girls&#8217; mothers, a French woman who invited them to her house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}