Dutroux victim faces paedophile in court

A WOMAN who was horrifically abused and held for 80 days in a cellar dungeon when she was 12 yesterday came face-to-face with the man accused of kidnapping her.

Sabine Dardenne, now 20, is a key witness at the Belgian trial of child rapist Mark Dutroux who is accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing six girls, four of whom died.

"Why did you not kill me?" Ms Dardenne said at the end of her evidence in the Arlon court. Dutroux answered he never considered it. He did admit abusing her and said: "I bear the full responsibility for that."