World News 04-03-2005 who: Prosecuting lawyer Philippe Cosnard what: Says parents sold child to sex ring "for a new car tyre" where: Angers, France when: Thursday snippet: In "the biggest criminal trial in France`s history", 66 people have been accused of rape, sexual abuse and prostituting children as young as six months old, says The Telegraph. "The defendants, many of them parents or grandparents of the alleged victims, are accused of `hiring out` the children for as little as parcels of food, packets of cigarettes or petty cash between 1999 and 2002. One nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped by 45 different adults..." [... more]

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