CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains distressing references to the sexual abuse of infants and toddlers, as detailed in court proceedings. Reader discretion is appreciated.
Disturbing new information has been released in the case of the prominent French left-wing LGBT activist who ran an international pedophile network. Pierre-Alain Cottineau, 32, was arrested in September of last year after being traced back to the horrific sexual torture of a 4-year-old disabled girl.
The child was reportedly placed into Cottineau’s care after he obtained approval from Child Welfare services to become a foster parent just months before the filmed abuse took place. Disturbingly, Cottineau had specifically requested to foster children under the age of 6.
As Reduxx previously reported, Cottineau allegedly offered up children and babies for men to rape. During the pre-arranged sessions, the men would film the rape of the victims, with some of them seemingly to have been drugged to make them easier to assault.
One victim was confirmed to be a baby no more than 5 months old who had been placed in Cottineau’s care. The sexual abuse of the infant was filmed and distributed in a Telegram group operated by Cottineau. Another was a young boy, approximately 3 years of age, who was seen in videos surrounded by several naked men and anally raped. In some videos, the boy is awake and in others he appears unconscious, while even more videos show the child on all fours, with a collar around his neck and a leash attached.
According to the outlet, Cottineau’s own mother had reported him when he was just 15-years-old after she discovered that he had been sexually abusing another child in their home. No legal action was ever taken against Cottineau for the abuse – measures that may have prevented him from being eligible to foster children later on.
Before his arrest, Cottineau was an extremely prolific LGBT activist, and former political candidate for La France Insoumise, a hard-left party run by former leader of the Left Party, Jean-Luc Melechon, who came third in the most recent French presidential elections. He also co-founded multiple LGBT activist groups, and in 2018, he was elected president of The Rainbow Shelter (L’Association Esprit Arc-en-Ciel – ESAC), and hosted the community’s first-ever “forum” to combat homophobia and transphobia.
In addition to his LGBT activism, he was a member of the Association Lily Cerise et Cie, an organization which, according to its website, advocates against domestic abuse. The group also offers sex education lessons to very young children, and volunteer members have been invited by elected officials to discuss “children’s rights, consent, and intimate parts of the body,” according to information posted to their social media. In materials aimed at children which introduce LGBT themes, the group promoted and endorsed ESAC while he worked there in a leadership role.
Renaud Gaudel, the public prosecutor of Nantes, said that Cottineau did could qualify as acts of torture or barbarism.