French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail
French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail

French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail

French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail
French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail
20 years for 299 victims. That's just over three weeks per victim.
Although...
He'll probably die in jail, so .. there's that.
In most western democracies sentences are served in parallel, not consecutively. The US is one of a few crazy places where people get sentences like 3.000+ years, or 161 life sentences.
In the US, prison sentences can be consecutive or concurrent. It's up to each sentencing (as provided for by law).
I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
20 years is the maximum sentence in France
The French legal system probably doesn't stack individual sentences and go "I sentence you to a combined twenty-eight thousand years in prison" like they do in the US.
All I know about French prisons I learned from reading Catch Me If You Can. If that's any sort of accurate, he's gonna have a bad time.
Abagnale is a bit of an unreliable witness. He blatantly overstates his "exploits".
The only real con he pulled was getting people to believe his stories.
And not from old age