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For those who doubt about the possibility of a pedophile ring of dozens of child victims and adult abusers in a small town, an interesting comparative case happened a few month later in north of France also, in Angers. Outreau is a 110 000 inhabitants urban area, Boulogne-sur-Mer is the main city. Angers is bigger, a 450 000 inhabitants urban area, but the size are comparable.
The Angers pedophile network case is a French criminal case in which sixty-two people were convicted of sexual abuse committed against forty-five children aged from a few months to 12 years old, the trial happened in 2005 and 2007, for facts that occured between 1999 and 2002. Some of the accused are parents and grandparents of the victims identified.
The case has many similarities with the Outreau case
The case begins with a complaint is filed in November 2000 by a 16-year-old girl, who denounces rapes committed between 1991 and 1993. The alleged perpetrator of the attacks is already in prison, having been sentenced in 1996 to ten years of criminal imprisonment in another case. Investigators from the Angers juvenile brigade are interested in the brother of the accused, Éric Joubert, who was also sentenced in 1997 to a two-year prison sentence and one year of probation.
On the sidelines of the investigation, Éric Joubert's associations are studied and a couple attracts the attention of the police : Franck and Patricia Vergondy, parents of four children, quickly suspected of being at the center of a child prostitution network. The case takes on a media dimension on March 8, 2002 with the publication of several press articles and the broadcast of a report on the 8 p.m. news of France 2 . Around twenty victims were identified and five people were indicted for “rape of a minor under 15 years of age” , “aggravated pimping” , “complicity in rape” and “failure to report a crime” .
In the days that followed, details, described as “sordid” by the public prosecutor , were revealed in the media. In addition to the incestuous nature of the crimes, the age of the children, ranging from 6 months to 12 years, as well as the scale of the network shocked investigators and public opinion. Coming from particularly disadvantaged backgrounds, the families involved prostituted their children in exchange for sums deemed “insignificant” by the prosecutor. However, the investigation reveals that Franck and Patricia Vergondy received 150 to 300 euros per week, sums considered significant for a family living on social benefits.
In the Outreau Case, the acquitted Daniel Legrand, a minor at the time of the facts, made similar revelations by revealing that he was paid to abuse children. The case also centered around a very poor family.
Here is the French wikipedia page you can autotranslate !
Here the translated confession of Daniel Legrand to his psychologist :
original French, from Outreau l'autre vérité documentary