Posted on 08/05/2006 12:41:26 PM PDT by wagglebee
An English schoolgirl has been raped while on holiday with her family at a nudist colony in the south of France.
The girl, believed to be from London, is alleged to have been attacked by a 19-year-old man in a caravan at the Bélézy camp, one of Europe's biggest for naturists, at Bédoin in the Vaucluse.
She is said to be under 15 and regularly attends the colony with her family, who are of Swedish origin.
The suspect is described as a ''brilliant" science student who lives locally. He denied the charge when questioned by an investigating magistrate.
Michel Roubard, a defence lawyer, said his client contested the police version of events and insisted that sex took place "by consent after an evening when both had been drinking".
The youth is being held in custody and theoretically faces up to 30 years in jail for rape of a minor.
The camp, which was established 30 years ago at the foot of Mount Ventoux, attracts about 2,000 nudists each summer and the alleged rape is said to have caused deep shock among holidaymakers. Counselling has been offered to young people at the camp.
Pascal Leclere, the colony's manager, said: ''As the father of two children who are also naturists, I could never have imagined something like this happening here.''
The camp was created by hippies and enforces a strict no-clothes policy, with a sign reminding visitors from all over the world that "full-time nakedness is a basic obligation".
Suzanne Piper, a British agent for the camp, said that she was trying to establish whether the victim was a 14-year-old girl whose family booked their holiday through her company.
She said security at the camp was usually first-rate, with an 8ft perimeter fence and access by swipe cards.
"One wonders where on earth this girl's parents were? It was the middle of the night and they seem to have allowed her to go out drinking with these boys."
Someone has been "Bogarting that joint" again.....
Pascal Leclere, the colony's manager, said: "As the father of two children who are also naturists, I could never have imagined something like this happening here."
Leclere obviously is not a student of basic biology.
And in other news, water is still wet...
As a man, I can tell you I would rather see the wink than the wave any day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or common sense.
Well at least that's they way you and I see it.
Can't you just picture it now. Your nude 14 year old dauther has asked your permission to go off with several nude men in the middle of the night, after they've all been drinking.
No problem there...
There ought to be a law. If folks are that stupid, perhpas the courts shouldn't be required to sort things out. It will be impossible to find the truth of this IMO.
I think you could walking in safety through a nudist camp if the women there looked like the women I see in the dressing room of my health club.
For every fit-looking, attractive woman there are ten older, saggier and baggier ones.
Clothes, ladies. They're a big help. I don't want get any full frontal (or rear) views of hairy old pot-bellied men either.
Darwin Award nominees are too plentiful in this story for us to determine finalists, let alone a winner.
What kind of uniforms do the security forces wear, so you know they're security?
An exact replica of the Cop from "The Village People."
You need to meet some new people.
Sounds like the one's you know take up too much of your time.
Hippies, eh? That figures.
'We don't need no stinkin' badges'
Thanks for the laughs and the message;)
Predictable, actually.
Ya think?
Interesting that a bunch of people running around naked like animals ARE SURPRISED WHEN SOMEBODY ACTS LIKE ONE !!!
If they were both male, nobody would have cared in culturally sensitive, metrosexual Europe if it was consensual or not...
I thought it might be a tattoo or something. A henna tattoo, of course.
...or shirts to pin them on. Or pants. Or shoes...
You don't want to know!
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