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France begins trial for child-sex ring

ABUSE The largest criminal trial in France's history is charging 66 men and women with rape and pimping their children, aged between 6 months and 12 years

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , Paris

Prosecutors say most of the abuse took place in the home of a man and woman who live in a suburb of Angers.

About 20 of the accused have denied the charges.

Others have retracted confessions, and 39 of the accused have already spent between two-and-a-half and three years in jail.

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