Joel Le Scouarnec, who has admitted his guilt, said last week he neither wanted nor expected to be shown leniency.
  • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    20 years for 299 victims. That’s just over three weeks per victim.

    Although…

    Le Scouarnec, 74, has been dubbed France’s most prolific paedophile. He is already in jail after being sentenced in 2020 to 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting four children, including two of his nieces.

    He’ll probably die in jail, so … there’s that.

    • Maestro@fedia.io
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      16 days ago

      In most western democracies sentences are served in parallel, not consecutively. The US is one of a few crazy places where people get sentences like 3.000+ years, or 161 life sentences.

    • TheEntity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Does France have the concept of a “violent offender” or medical detention? You basically hold someone indefinitely, routinely assessing if they can be released.

          • Vittelius@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            Apparently: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rétention_de_sûreté_en_France

            In French criminal law, “rétention de sûreté” is a procedure for placing prisoners who have served their sentence, but who present a very high risk of reoffending because they generally suffer from a serious personality disorder, in a socio-medico-judicial security center. This measure is limited to convictions for the most serious crimes, in particular sex crimes, and must be expressly provided for in the sentencing decision

            Translated with DeepL

            I couldn’t find an English source, even the English wiki article on preventive detention doesn’t list France.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    16 days ago

    While I’m not at all comfortable with the overuse of incarceration in our legal system, some people do need to be contained, like this unfortunate specimen.

  • Owl@lemm.eeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    feet first into a woodchipper set to 1% speed is the only appropriate punishment for that dude

    • Owl@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      whoever downvoted this needs to be investigated. likely a pedo

  • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Can somebody explain why every article about this is coupled with a drawing instead of, for example, the face of the piece of shit, or one of those random stock pictures that are often used for similar articles?