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.
20 years for 299 victims. That’s just over three weeks per victim.
Although…
He’ll probably die in jail, so … there’s that.
I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
20 years is the maximum sentence in France
If absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.
It depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.
All I know about French prisons I learned from reading Catch Me If You Can. If that’s any sort of accurate, he’s gonna have a bad time.
The only real con he pulled was getting people to believe his stories.
And not from old age