10 people jailed for gang rape of children

A PAEDOPHILIA trial that stunned France with lurid accounts of parents who loaned their children out for sex ended yesterday with 10 of 17 defendants convicted.

Thierry and Myriam Delay, an unemployed couple at the centre of the scandal, were sentenced to terms of 20 and 15 years respectively for multiple counts of rape and handing over their own four sons to friends and neighbours for sex.

Thierry, 40, was found guilty of raping nine children and sexually assaulting six others. Myriam, 37, was convicted of raping seven children, pimping her four boys and sexually assaulting another 10.