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Chloe Rodriguez, 15.
Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET Sunday: During the seven days that 15-year-old Chloe Rodriguez, of southern France, was held captive, she memorized details – her kidnapper, his car, its license plate -- but she did not try to defy the man's orders for fear of being killed, metrofrance.com reported.
Chloe was found in Germany, tied up in the trunk of a car Friday afternoon after police stopped her kidnapper during a routine traffic stop, RTL.fr reported. She had disappeared the week before, on Nov. 9, after leaving her home by scooter to go to a friend’s house.
Her scooter was found six miles away with her all belongings except for her helmet.
Chloe was hospitalized Friday after being found. Her parents told reporters that she is doing well, but that she has cried a lot, according to RTL, and that she was physically exhausted.
The kidnapper, described as a 32-year-old man from the Gard region in southern France where Chloe lives with her family, was detained at a German jail in Offenbourg.
According to local news reports, the man had been released from jail in September after being convicted in May 2009 of physically and sexually assaulting six women. Those women had been, like Chloe, traveling alone on the streets of their rural community, either by foot or bicycle.
Jean-François Corral, the suspected kidnapper's lawyer said, according to midilibre.fr, that he had undergone the recommended psychiatry in prison. But he did not check in with his probation officer after his release.
He explained how his client assaulted the six previous women: He would force the victims into his car and show them pornographic images while caressing them.
“Each time that a woman would fight him, he would go away,” Corral said, according to midilibre.fr. “But he never went to the end.”
Violette Rodriguez told reporters Friday that she was elated by the news. “Today is too beautiful. There will be two birthdays for my little Chloe,” she said in French.
She added: “This man who did her so much harm -- there is justice, and justice will be rendered. But I thank him anyway, because he kept her alive.”
Chloe returned home by TGV -- France's rapid train system -- Saturday after spending the night in Germany at the police station. In the car ride home from the station, her mother, Violette Rodriguez, covered her teen daughter with a blanket to protect her. They were escorted down a small rural road by a police motorcade.
Her father, Jesus Rodriguez, told reporters that his daughter told him that she never contradicted her captor and that she had come to understand his triggers, according to lexpress.fr.
"She told us that she was able to have a dialogue with this man, and that she obeyed all his orders," Jesus Rodriguez told reporters outside their home.
Cheers erupted in the village where the family lives. Residents were relieved after a week of combing the back roads and the many abandoned stone houses that make the region seem so picturesque and innocent.
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They are way to liberal over there in France and Germany. This guy needs permanent time in prison.
Am reminded of a case I knew about Years ago in Texas,repeat offender,hard to convict because most of the time his victims were Hispanic children,raped a five year old girl,family would not allow her to testify. Rapist was found in his parked car under a bridge,both wrists slashed,throat cut from ear to ear.Police wrote it off as death due to self inflicted wounds.Seems fair to me.
You see killing gets easier in Texas. A rapist here a draft dodger their maybe just start killing people you think might become a rapist. Hell Texas will cover it up for you unless they do not have anyone on death row then they might need you to fill a vacancy. Maybe drunk drivers next they could have killed an innocent person. Maybe with the vigliante justice you could start picking groups that you think are not rightious enough. Hell pick people that are not for killing rapists they are siding with the enemy. They should die. Don't worry Texas will cover it up or allow it because you think it is ok. Oh it seems fair does it and you know what fair is because you want rapists killed? The fact that your story is about a rapist is not the point when you find some that has been murdered. Murdered by a proffesional is seems by how you described it. And they were good at it. Whats makes you think they stoped at just killing a rapist? So let it be covered up oh unless you know who did it. The it would be a cover up and not just letting justice being served. Killing gets easier for people like the rapist killer and if they are not held accountable for the total disregard for the law. Well then people should be able to do anything to anyone as they see fit. Like Texas killing gets easier and the killers get better. Better at killing
Drunk drivers? Come on now, that's a favourite pastime of Texan good 'ol boys!
Kill all rapists, period. And what is it with Germany being a magnet for all things disturbing?
Totally Dis-Agree with you
The US has enough crime of this type that you should not be talking about any other country. Don't throw stones if you live in a glass house.
How about he's in a chair in isolation and his wrists are shackled to the chair and has been fed salt peter and he is forced to watch porn movies most of the day....hahahahahaha
The good news is that this monster may finally have made a big mistake by committing his crime in Germany, assuming they try and punish him there instead of sending him home to France.
French punishment for rapists may be ineffectively lax, but, if I recollect correctly, the same is not the case in Germany. I believe I read somewhere that German rapists can be given a choice between either indefinite terms of imprisonment or a fixed sentence plus castration. Usually, if my memory serves me, this is done chemically, but I believe Germany is also the only Western country - possibly the only country period - where there is a discretionary punishment of the surgical variety, for repeat offenders. I think the EU has been trying to persuade Germany to dispense with the physical mutilation option, but I don't believe that Germany has done so yet.. in which case, this bloke might be in a deep doodoo.
I did not read all the comments here, but I did read the local version of what happened in the Offenburger Tageblatt (I am fluent in German). After apparently committing a theft in Germany, the guy fled in his car and collided with another car, and then apparently fled on foot, but was caught....... And then the girl was discovered in the trunk....... lucky for her.
I have more info: The kidnapper was observed by the owner of a car as he smashed with a stone the windshield to steal a laptop computer. He notified police who located and pursued the perpetrator who then in turn caused a collision and live threatening injury to the other driver. Then he fled on foot, but with the help of passersby and police was caught. Then the girl was discovered in the trunk. The girl is already reunited with her family........
Where does it say she was raped?
It doesn't Gdim. Perhaps this serial rapist who raped at least 6 women, kidnapped and held this girl because he wanted someone to play checkers with, good point!
what is wrong with NSNBC there appears to be something wrong with their programing.
Thank God she was found. I hate to think what that guy was going to do to her. Why even have a trial. This guy deserves life in prison or even the death penalty.
I hate to think what he already did!
Three years for six rapes? The system kidnapped and raped this girl, pure and simple. The politicians who make the laws are more to blame than the rapist himself. This guy is sick, what is the lawmakers' excuse?
Super liberal laws. This is what happens when the excessive bleeding heart ignores all common sense.
No reasonable doubt about sexual abuse? Prevent the disease from spreading, castrate the perpetrator!
Um yeah... no chance. A single first degree rape here in the states is usually 25+ years to life in prison. Six rapes here and you are going to die in prison of old age (kidnapping is also usually life in prison). France has pathetic laws considering this guy physically and sexually assaulted six teens and spent only 3 years in prison, ridiculous.
Jerry Sandusky only got 30 years.
But, 30 years is a life sentence for an old pedophile like Sandusky.
To every pedo supporting, mental health so-called professional that wants to keep these people around so that you can "study" them to help better understand why it is they commit to such atrocities... I have one word for you,
Enabler
Let me tell you enablers something about mental health... you may be able to cure it (which you haven't in hundreds of years) but visceral speaking, you folks are just as bad as rapists and murders. On a genetic level we should have eradicated these failures a long time ago but unfortunately we still have those bleeding heart misguided intellectual inept fools that want to cater to kidnappers, rapists, and murders all in the name of humanity. A word, that ironically escapes those that believe they are doing the will of their subconscious.
Thankfully this girl was found alive. But in the near future there will be another girl. or boy, that we will read about who was brutally raped or murdered to satisfy some sick @!$%#ing failed genetic piece of @!$%# all because of the enablers who living among us who strive to keep them alive within our legal systems to "study" them to help find a cure that clearly doesn't exist. A cure, that doesn't exist because these types of crimes have been committed since the dawn of mankind. There's only one way to subdue such atrocities... and today, we are definitely not supporing those methods.
Why blame the therapists? They don't make the laws.
No, they just vote on them like everyone else.
At some point therapy isn't the answer. And when a society comes to believe that at every corner it is... then it will endure exactly what we are witnessing today.
But hey, who am I to say such things. Clearly I'm wrong. This is paradise we observe every day is it not?
If this happened in America the Christian Right Fundamentlist would say, what happened was her fault because she didn't fight back. You know like it isn't rape if the female has no scrathes.
It's a blessing she is alive.
Actually no they wouldn't. But don't let fly by media and liberal programming convince you of the truth. Maybe if you lived here you would understand. Most Christians I know are cool as @!$%#, and would never say such things.
I guess the world IS a much bigger place than you've come to realize...
Oh and by the way I know a lot of really down to earth Muslims as well. At the end of the day folks are tired of corrupt governments and leadership... all they want to do is live a peaceful life...
i said it once i will say it again
the judge and the lawyer should be thrown in jail with the idiot they let walk, lets be responcible for being as idiotic as the perp himself 6 victims and he walks? lol what a court room joke
also time to remove the perps penis , hands, feet , and head
sounds like if that would happen no. 8 victim will never happen
The lawyer was simply doing his job and the judge simply applied the law as it was written. The lawmakers are to blame, and the people who elected them, which, ironically, includes the victim's own families.
Here is an honest question - why do you suppose that while having generally more lax laws, the violent crime rate in European countries is less than in the US with our more severe laws? I am not saying our laws should be less severe, I am truly wondering what could make the difference....
I don't think it has so much to do with the laws as with America's sick fascination with weapons, violence, and military might. Americans love to pound their chests and boast about how powerful they are.
Very perceptive young woman to be able to figure out his personality and keep him from doing something extreme.
Sometimes I think Judges and Jury's get so wrapped up in the procedures and the system they forget the victim and the terror, pain and humiliation that they were put through at the hands of the criminal. I don't know anything about this guy except what I read here but I have to say "this time Throw away the key". What does it take to prove you cannot be trusted to walk the streets.. I'm so relieved my and I'm sure every-ones hopes and prayers for the safe return of this young girl were answered .... I hope she recovers completely !
I went over to read the translation in the French newspaper according to lexpress.fr. and this was not a routine traffic stop. According to the newspaper there, he was involved in a high speed chase after a robbery.
my pen knife could cure his problem, testosterone elimination is the key
These Animals are not hurting JUDGES and LAWYERS, they are hurting PEOPLE. For pete sake, KILL IT BEFORE IT ESCAPES AGAIN.
kill that fuk and all sexual predators ...
Death penalty for scums who kidnapped women and raped them. Too bad we don't have it because of shyster lawyers.
For such a young girl to be victimized by a kidnapping rapist for over a week is a nightmare. Yet we have Klansman posting that HE would do the same thing to her.
Sick garbage like that should be cleaned from the planet. Not by the court system but by the victims of such human waste. Shoot 'em or stab 'em, hang them from a tree branch it doesn't matter how they go as long as they go.
As far as the guy in this story, he won't live long, I'm sure Europeans have limited tolerance for repeat offenders too.
Good job you did all the right things survive this animal, GOD has a plan for you.