Adrien Massy (Angers, France), 32, foreign exchange teacher employed through Amity Institute, San Diego, California, for The French Academy of Minnesota, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, on a field trip to Concordia Language Villages, Concordia College, Bemidji, Minnesota, "sexually assaulted two boys ... in 2010" Fargo-Moorhead Forum: Frenchman convicted in home country for sex crimes committed at Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji (Mar 21 2014) After fleeing the country and refusing to cooperate with U.S. investigators, a man from France who sexually assaulted two boys at Concordia Language Villages in 2010 has been convicted and sentenced for his crime in his home country. Adrien Massy, 32, of Angers, France, was sentenced to 12 years in a French prison for sexually assaulting the boys, ages 10 and 11, in Bemidji ... In addition to Massy’s prison sentence, he was placed on 10 years of probation with sex offender treatment upon release. Massy faces three additional years in prison if he fails to comply. Massy received a lifetime ban on contact with minors and must register on the French national registry of sex offenders/pedophiles. According to the release, Frecon said Massy confessed to additional rapes of children in France. Bemidji Pioneer: UPDATE: Frenchman convicted in home country for sex crimes committed in Bemidji (Mar 21 2014) Park Rapids Enterprise: Frenchman convicted in home country for sex crime committed in Bemidji (Mar 21 2014) Tags:
CBS Local Minnesota: French Teacher Convicted Abroad Of Sexually Assaulting 2 Minn. Boys (Mar 21 2014) During the investigation, [Adrien] Massy was fired by the French Academy, lost his U.S. visa and fled to France. United States Attorney John Docherty eventually called for Massy’s arrest and extradition to the U.S. to stand trial, but the French government denied the request, and instead decided to try Massy in France for his Minnesota crimes.Honorary French Consul Alain Frecon says the decision to keep Massy in France was out of consideration for his victims, since French law allows for a defendant to be prosecuted without cross-examining them. Testimony against Massy was provided by the parents of some of his victims, and he was tried in part with evidence provided by Beltrami County and Edina Police. Frecon said during the trial, Massy confessed to other sexual assaults against children in France.
KARE 11: French teacher convicted in MN sex assaults (Mar 21 2014) Authorities say [Adrien] Massy was in the Bemidji area between May 22 and May 27, 2010, staying at Concordia language camp when the sexual assaults occurred. The victims - a 10-year-old and an 11-year-old - were at Concordia language camp with Massey while on a field trip from the French Academy of Minnesota. Beltrami County Sheriff's Investigator Danelle Haugen worked with St, Louis Park Police Officers and Edina Police Detective Mike Lutz to develop the investigation of the assaults in Beltrami County. They uncovered additional assaults by Massey which occurred in the metro area. Massey was fired from his teaching job, his U.S. visa was revoked and he fled to France where he refused to cooperate with the investigation.
My Fox Twin Cities: Teacher involved in Minnesota sex assaults convicted in France (Mar 21 2014) A French court convicted [Adrien] Massy of sexually assaulting two metro area boys, a 10 and 11 year old while on a field trip. He was working as a foreign exchange teacher employed by the French Academy of Minnesota which is in St. Louis Park. The assaults took place while students were on a field trip at the Concordia Language Camp in Bemidji ... Massy was sentenced to 12 years in prison plus 10 years or probation with sex offender treatment upon his release from prison. In addition, Massy received a lifetime ban of contact with minors and must register on the French registry of sex offenders/pedophiles.
Minnesota Public Radio: French teacher sentenced for sexually assaulting 6 Minn. students (Mar 21 2014) A French citizen who admitted to sexually assaulting six children while teaching at a language school based in St. Louis Park was sentenced last week to 12 years in a French prison. Adrien Massy, 32, worked for the French Academy of Minnesota from 2008 to 2010. In July 2010, Massy was charged by Beltrami County authorities with abusing two boys, ages 10 and 11, during a field trip to Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji. He fled the United States before authorities could arrest him.
Star Tribune: Sex assaults of kids at Concordia language camp lead to conviction in France (Mar 21 2014) A Frenchman teaching his native language in St. Louis Park has been convicted in France of sexually assaulting Twin Cities boys during a 2010 field trip to the Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji. Adrien Massy, 32, was sentenced last week in a jury trial in Angers, France, to 12 years in prison. Massy allegedly assaulted six boys and girls in Minnesota, then fled to France to avoid trial. Four of his victims were French citizens, and two were Americans, according to Alain Frecon, French consul in Minneapolis.Frecon, an attorney, explained that Massy was tried in France because the defendant acknowledged to authorities that he had committed similar crimes in his homeland. Also, the diplomat continued, there is no extradition treaty between the United States and France that would have required Massy’s return to Minnesota. “He was a fugitive of the law in the U.S., but he was not a fugitive of the law in France,” Frecon said.Frecon said the assaults in Minnesota involved digital penetration, which in France is “tantamount to rape. The French society is so appalled by these types of events.” Two of Massy’s victims in Minnesota were boys, ages 10 and 11, and were with Massy in late May 2010 on a field trip from the French Academy of Minnesota in St. Louis Park to the Concordia language camp, according to Beltrami County Sheriff Phil Hodapp.The Republic: French national convicted in France of sexually assaulting boys at Minnesota language camp (Mar 21 2014)
