Question juridique clé
Whether the acts amounted to sexual coercion by psychical pressure under Art. 189 CP, rather than abuse of distress or consensual therapeutic acts.
Solution extraite
The Federal Court held that the lower court had not clearly distinguished exploitation of dependency from coercive psychical pressure and that the matter had to be re-examined.
Motifs extraits
A therapeutic dependency can fall under Art. 193 CP, but Art. 189 CP requires additional means creating a situation without escape and reaching the intensity of coercion. The appellate reasoning did not sufficiently show that threshold.