28
July
CHILD-SEX CONVICTIONS
A French court convicted 62 men and women yesterday in a mass trial and sentenced some of them to as much as 28 years in prison for their roles in a network that raped and prostituted children. Up to 45 children were raped or sexually assaulted between 1999 and 2002. The children were between the ages of 6 months and 14 years old. They were raped and abused by parents, grandparents or acquaintances in a working class neighborhood. The court sentenced a defendant known only as Philippe V. to 28