Seducing cheesemaker pleads guilty

RIGA 's Cheese maker and French national Lucien Heribert pled guilty tothe seduction of several minor girls in regional court.

The press center of the Prosecutor's Office reported that the suspectpleaded guilty and the case was sent to court according to the settlementprocedure.

The terms of the settlement as well as the type of punishment are not beingdisclosed yet.

Four girls were admitted as the victims on the case. Two of them were belowthe age of 14 at the time of the commission of the crime.

Heribert was charged with seduction of minor girls. The maximum punishmentfor this offence is six years in jail.

The materials of the case, including the number of incidents, have yet to berevealed , but according to the information published by the media, lastDecember a video shot with a mobile phone was placed on the Internet withHeribert's bedroom and a naked 14-year old local girl in it. The material wasallegedly filmed by another underaged girl.

The material was noticed by teachers who reported to the police.

The Frenchman allegedly paid money to the girls.

Heribert said that he has not done anything illegal, but he did not denythat the girl, who was helping him in the cheese plant, was naked in hisbedroom as she wanted to take a bath. He also claims that the girls had stolenabout a couple of hundreds of lats from him.

Later Heribert decided to sell his cheese plant Francu Gaume, explainingthat people's purchasing capacity has dropped, and he is old and wants to takea rest.