The town that sold its children

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France is in shock as 66 residents go on trial for gruesome paedophilia

Alex Duval Smith in Angers
Sunday March 13, 2005
The Observer

Amid the bundles of closely-typed paperwork and legal tomes, the lawyers flourish and stab their ballpoint pens at scrawled sketches of family trees on their open notebooks.

The scribbled charts are helping them to keep track of the dips and twists of some of the most distressing and gruesome stories of depravity ever to be brought to light in a French court.

That France's biggest ever criminal trial should be taking place in the beautiful Loire valley town of Angers, famed for its Cointreau, its heritage and its meandering river, is as inexplicable as the horror unfolding on the notebooks.

Sixty-six residents are facing charges that include child sex abuse, incest and pimping their own children for not much more than the price of a carton of cigarettes.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1436494,00.html

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2. I don't even know how to respond to that

That is horrifying. :(