Ex-husband jailed 20 years in French mass rape trial
Ex-husband jailed 20 years in French mass rape trial
AVIGNON, France - A court on Thursday sentenced a French man to the maximum term of 20 years in jail for committing and orchestrating the mass rapes of his now former wife, Gisele Pelicot, with dozens of strangers he recruited online.
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A real shame. With that many assaults, it really should have been a longer sentence.
He got the maximum sentence.
depends on if they had chosen to sentence him for 51 crimes or one crime with 51 incidences. They should have sentenced the husband to 51x20 years, or 1020 years in prison.
That's not how it works in France at all. You get prosecuted on all charges, but only condemned for the most grievous offense. So for a murder+assault+trespassing case, if found guilty of all charges, your sentence would only be for murder.
As all condemnation it takes context into account, like the assault + trespassing, but if there were limits on murder sentences then you'd only be sentence-able to that crime's legal sentencing limits (there are none for murder, which is the only crime that has no sentencing limits).
The US prison system is made for maximal punishment instead of giving a chance for redemption.
The idea is to keep the prisoners away from society for as long as possible... And got further twisted by for-profit prison as the longer the sentence is, the longer they keep their slave... Sorry, prisoners, for cheap labor.
We're in France.
Looked it up: "French sentencing law generally forbids consecutive sentencing"
Today I learned. My bad, thanks.