BELGIUM
GlobalPost
Amanda MorrowJuly 31, 2012
A Belgian court has ruled that Michelle Martin, ex-wife and accomplice of the pedophile killer Marc Dutroux, can be released to a convent, Agence France Press reported.
Martin, 52, was convicted of helping Dutroux hold six young girls prisoner in the 1990s, and of complicity in the deaths of two eight-year-old girls – Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo – who died of starvation in Dutroux’s dungeon.
Dutroux, who also raped his victims, and killed two others, is serving a life sentence. Martin, meanwhile, has spent 16 years in prison, after being sentenced to 30 years, and refused parole three times.
AFP reported that the court’s decision to grant Martin “conditional release” comes after the Clarisses convent, in central Belgium, agreed to take her in.
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