"allo...my children need wine...who are you to refuse it..."
despicable frog pieces of crap.....
marginal area .. family circle .. Was this some kind of cult?
No doubt the Belgians are most upset about the pedophiles getting caught.
Here is a link to CNN coverage
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/03/france.trial/index.html
;-)
All pedophiles should be executed. Zero recividism.
If they actually have the tapes, this takes it out of the realm of some of the cases here that were just too incredible to believe, but they got convictions anyway. Thanks to your husband for the translation.
Wonder what the Muslim population of the area is.
I was going to say, this sounds like another McMartin Preschool witch hunt.... but I guess not.
-ccm
Maybe we can get the ACLU to go over there and defend them at US taxpayers expense like they defended NAMBLA. Line 'em up and shoot 'em all and spare the circus.
ANGERS - France's biggest criminal trial in modern history opens with 66 men and women facing charges for the rape and sexual abuse of children as young as a few months old.Daily Telegraph, Australia
The case is being held in a specially constructed wooden hall in the law courts in Angers, western France, and is expected to take four months to be heard.
More than 60 lawyers will be involved, and the 430-page prosecution case will take four clerks three days to read out.
Also attending will be many of the 45 victims of the alleged ring, whose stories are so painful that jury members will have access to a special psychiatric team.
Details of the allegations against the 39 men and 27 women make appalling reading.
All come from the poorest and least educated sections of society, and lived in the Saint-Leonard quarter of Angers, a largely pleasant and leafy historic town.
Investigators were alerted to the network when they decided to keep tabs on Eric Joubert, a former convicted sex offender released in 1999 who was supposed to be undergoing a course of psychiatry.
He and another former offender, Franck Vergondy, are alleged to have founded the ring.
According to the prosecution, between 1999 and 2001 nearly 50 children were raped or abused – though the overall number could be much higher.
The prosecution has gathered evidence to show that parents bartered their own children for small sums of money, food parcels and cartons of cigarettes.
One girl of 10 was allegedly raped by more than 30 adults.
Most of the abuse took place in Mr Vergondy's apartment, prosecutors say, but also in sheds by garden allotments on the outside of Angers and in caravans.
Locals said they were aware of a constant traffic of "voiturettes" – cheap electric cars that need no licence – but no one ever made a comment.
For many in France, one of the shocking elements in the case is the number of women involved. Of the 39 accused who are in custody, 13 are women.
Three of the defendants face life in prison if they are convicted, and the others lesser terms ranging from three to 20 years.
Amid all the horror generated by the facts surrounding the trial is a note of caution created by a previous pedophile trial in northern France last year.
That case, called the Outreau trial, saw 13 people implicated of abusing children on the basis of one woman's evidence and some corroborating statements from alleged victims.
But the woman later admitted in court she had lied, and the children's testimony was found to be unreliable.
Nevertheless, many of the accused in that case languished in prison for four years, and one committed suicide, before the truth finally came out in court.
One of them named Roman Polanski?