A hundred rapes of little boys: former priest Olivier de Scitivaux de Greische, sentenced to 17 years in prison

Olivier de Scitivaux de Greische a été condamné. (ILLUSTRATION) MAXPPP – claudio asquini/ipa-agency.net

A former French priest was sentenced on Saturday to 17 years in prison for hundreds of rapes and aggravated sexual assaults on four boys, facts which he had admitted "without reservation" the day before.

Olivier de Scitivaux de Greische, 64 years old, former priest of Orléans (center) was found "guilty of all acts of rape and aggravated sexual assault", declared an assize court in Orléans (south of Paris). She announced a security period of 10 years which goes beyond the requisitions of the attorney general.

The day before, in front of a forbidden room and suspended on his words, the former priest – returned to the secular state at his request – &amp ;quot;recognized everything without reservation.

"I recognize, since it is necessary to use the words, the touching, the caresses, the fellatio, the digital and penile penetrations, all the facts&amp ;quot;, he said.

The accused also confessed, for the first time, to rape and sexual assault on two other victims as early as 1982 – facts which could not be tried due to the prescription.

The facts judged date back to the 1990s and 2000s when Olivier de Scitivaux de Greische, ordained priest in 1989, became involved with the parents of his victims, a family of three, regularly inviting each other to their table, remaining to sleep in the room of the eldest, who will be attacked and raped from the age of 9.

In front of a packed courtroom, in which many leaders of the Catholic Church and parishioners have taken their seats since Tuesday, the three brothers and a friend took turns recounting the abuse they suffered each in turn. , without knowing that the others were also victims.

"Look closely at his hands" 

"When there wasn'one available, there was the second or third", confirmed the former priest, thus designating the three brothers, forty-year-olds today united on the bench of victims.

"Look closely at his hands", insulted the youngest of the siblings, &amp ;quot;it was in his hands that I ejaculated the first time, it was his hands that gave the Eucharist.

The facts occurred until the beginning of the 2000s. However, the first alerts had been issued by facilitators and families to the diocese in the 1980s, then by families or facilitators from the chaplaincy in 1998.

The Catholic Church has for years been shaken by child abuse scandals around the world, and regularly accused of turning a blind eye to them and ignoring the victims. In France, a report released in October 2021 estimates that in 70 years, around 330,000 people were attacked within the Church when they were minors.