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Sabine Dardenne (C), 12, who was found a few weeks ago in one of the houses of Belgian pedophile Marc Dutroux, cries 20 October in Brussels during a rally of tens of thousands of people protesting the Belgian justice system's handling of the child sex, kidnapping and murder cases that has...

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Clothilde Hoffmann, lawyer of Michelle Martin, the ex-wife of Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux, arrives in a courtroom in Mons June 10, 2011. Hoffmann submitted on Friday a new proposal for her release. Martin was arrested in 1996 for helping Dutroux to kidnap six girls, four of...

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Presiding judge Stephane Goux is pictued during the trial of Belgian child rapist Marc Dutroux and his alleged accomplices at the court house of Arlon 14 June 2004. Jurors in the trial of Belgian child rapist Marc Dutroux retired to consider their verdict Monday as hearings wrapped up...

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A tribunal file of the accomplice and ex-wife of one of Europe's most infamous child killers Marc Dutroux, Michelle Martin, is displayed on May 10, 2011 during a press conference on her early release in Mons. Referring to a controversial court decision on May 9 to free Martin halfway...

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Betty Marchal (R), mother of An, victim of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux, talks to Belgian Johan Appeltans (L), father of Shana Appeltans, and Eddy Van Uytsel, father of Annick Van Uytsel (C), as they take a break during the trial of Ronald Janssen at the Palace of Justice in...

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Belgian lawyer Georges-Henri Beauthier (R) talks with Betty Marchal (C), the mother of Ann Marchal, a victim of Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux, as her husband Pol talks to media outside a courtroom in Mons June 10, 2011. The lawyer of Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin,...

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Belgian Betty (L) and Pol Marchal (R), parents of Ann Marchal, a victim of Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux, talk to media outside courtroom in Mons June 10, 2011. The lawyer of Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin, submitted on Friday a new proposal for her release. Martin was...

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Belgian lawyer Georges-Henri Beauthier (L) talks with Pol Marchal (R), the father of Ann Marchal, a victim of Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux, outside a courtroom in Mons June 10, 2011. The lawyer of Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin, submitted on Friday a new proposal for her...

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Belgian lawyer Georges-Henri Beauthier (L) talks with Betty (R) and Pol Marchal, parents of Ann Marchal, a victim of Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux, as they leave a courthouse in Mons June 10, 2011. The lawyer of Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin, submitted on Friday a new...

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Presiding judge Stephane Goux (C), flanked by his assistants, writes 17 June 2004 during the reading of the verdict at the Arlon courthouse. Belgian paedophile Marc Dutroux was found guilty of abduction, rape and murder by the jury today at the end of a long-awaited trial into a series...

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Belgian General Prosecutor Claude Michaux gestures during a news conference in Mons May 10, 2011. Belgian justice authorities have approved a request by the former wife of Belgian paedophile killer Marc Dutroux to be transferred to a convent in France when she is released from prison. ...

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The pictures of Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo, two victims of child rapist Marc Dutroux, lie on a bunch of flowers during a protest outside the Palace of Justice in Brussels May 10, 2011. Belgian justice authorities have approved a request by the former wife of Belgian paedophile...

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Michelle Martin, ex-wife of child rapist Marc Dutroux, waits in the dock at Arlon courthouse, in this March 29, 2004 file photo. Martin, who was convicted of complicity in the paedophile killer's string of kidnaps, rapes and murders that shocked Belgium in the 1990s, could be freed on...

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Michelle Martin (C), wife of Belgian child rapist Marc Dutroux, leaves the Neufchateau courthouse escorted by police officers, in this November 14, 2002 file photo. Martin, now the ex-wife of Dutroux, convicted of complicity in the paedophile killer's string of kidnaps, rapes and...

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French Justice Minister Michel Mercier leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Mercier said a Belgian woman who helped her then-husband abuse and kill young girls won't be allowed to live in France. Belgium's Michelle Martin was...

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General prosecutor Claude Michaux gives a press conference on the possible liberation of Michelle Martin in Mons, on May 10, 2011. The accomplice and ex-wife of one of Europe's most infamous child killers, Marc Dutroux, was set to walk free Tuesday when a prosecutor said there were no...