Angelique Cauchy testified against Andrew Geddes, who was sentenced to 18 years for the rape and sexual assault of four minors between the ages of 12 and 17. “It was the worst 15 days of her life. She was raped nearly 400 times,” the woman revealed.
“My coach raped me three times in one day,” says the former French tennis player’s story in part. Angelique Cauchy He is currently 36 years old. Andrew Geddes He is accused of sexually assaulting her between the ages of 13 and 18.
The tennis world was shocked this week to hear a statement from a former French player condemning his former coach at the Bourbon Palace in Paris, Perfil newspaper reported.
The former tennis player’s statement was made before a commission of inquiry set up in July and he will be sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2021 for rape and sexual assault of four minors aged between 12 and 17. The content is disadvantageous to coaches who have received the test.
Cauchy and Guedes’ relationship began in 1999, when he began training her at the Sarcelles club when she was 12 years old.
The trials that Angelique Cauchy went through
The girl at the time faced an ordeal during a gathering in the French commune of La Baule, which she detailed in her testimony.
“He took his victims to La Baule, far from their homes, to be completely uprooted and move on to a higher stage. It was the worst 15 days of my life. Raped me three times in one day. The first night he asked me to go to his room but I didn’t go. So he went into my house. That’s it. It was even worse: “I was imprisoned and couldn’t go out whenever I wanted,” said the 36-year-old French woman, who claimed that a few months earlier she had been “raped almost 400 times.”
“From the ages of 13 to 18, I lived thinking I had AIDS.” This was reported by the French newspaper Le Parisien.
“I was going to meet the PSG players at the Camp des Loges, so I had a little notebook with the autographs of the PSG players. And between those papers I wrote: ‘ I can’t take it anymore, this has to end, I’m going to end it all,”’ he said. life. “
“I told him, “You should stop, it’s not right, I don’t want to do it.” And he said, “You know sometimes things like this happen in coach-student relationships. We spend a lot of time together, so that’s normal.’ But I didn’t want to do that, he was the same age as my mother.’ added about. .
“It was well known that he was not good with young girls. I don’t talk about myself because no one knows me. But when it came to other people, I said, ‘Yes, he doesn’t like them. There were always people who said, ‘He’s with her, he’s going out with her.’ But when he’s 38, he can’t date a 15-year-old girl, especially if he’s training her,” he concluded.
Today, Cauchy is a physical education teacher, tennis coach, and also founded a sports association called ReBound.
