The “monster” of Outreau, Thierry Delay, was sentenced in 2004 to twenty years in prison for raping his children, he has since been sentenced several times by the courts.
Thierry Delay, the “monster from Outreau” sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping twelve children, including his four sons, was brought before the courts several times after this first conviction in May 2004. The man who pleaded guilty before the Assize Court of Pas-de-Calais 19 years ago, was moved to the Pierre-Hanzel center in Rieux-Volvestre in May 2016 to treat his multiple sclerosis. But he was again sentenced by the courts in the summer of 2018.
During a stay in a psychiatric care center in Marchant, he showed the contents of his mobile phone to caregivers, he revealed many child pornography photographs. The hospital staff therefore alerted the authorities. The prosecution took up the case and sentenced Thierry Delay to 6 months in prison, a modified sentence. In March 2020, Thierry Delay was sentenced in Toulouse to two years in prison, this time with continued detention for harassment and sexual assault on a vulnerable person. The facts occurred between 2017 and 2019 in the center for patients with multiple sclerosis where he resided. During his appearance in court, he admitted “having touched the legs” of a resident of the hospital center “because she had soft skin”.
However, management presented evidence that it went further. The defendant therefore admitted to talking to her about the pornographic films he was watching, having insulted her and even having touched her on the chest. “I was in love with her,” he tried to justify. During the hearing, he admitted to “libido issues”. “When I received an injection (intended to restrict his sexual urges) in June 2019, I stopped bothering him”, had narrated Thierry Delay.
During this hearing, the patient’s lawyer, Me El Hadji Gueye, pleaded in his favor, asking the judges during the correctional hearing in Toulouse for “accompaniment” rather than “confinement”. A version that did not move prosecutor Justine Gay who called him a “predator”. “After children in 2004, it now attacks vulnerable adults,” she pleaded. A version of the prosecutor who finally convinced the judges because they sentenced him to two years in prison for sexual assault and harassment of a vulnerable person.