Overview
- The public prosecutor asked the court to sentence Jérôme P. to 14 years in prison and to strip him of parental authority over his two minor children, and the court has withdrawn to deliberate.
- Multiple women including an ex-companion identified in reporting as Jennifer C. testified to repeated rapes and to physical and psychological violence over years living in a polygamous household.
- A court-appointed psychiatric expert described the accused as driven by a feeling of omnipotence who shifts responsibility to others, while the defendant acknowledged only sporadic disciplinary violence and called the accusations a "conspiracy."
- Prosecutors presented evidence of privacy invasions used as tools of control, saying the accused installed surveillance cameras in three rooms and geolocated family members’ phones to monitor them.
- The trial unearthed allegations of wider family harm, including claims of intergenerational incest, several brothers under investigation and one brother’s 2024 suicide in detention, raising questions about broader patterns of abuse and the future care of the children.