Article: Jury enters third day of deliberations in Dutroux child rape-murder trial


AP Worldstream
06-16-2004
Dateline: ARLON, Belgium
Jurors spent a third day Wednesday deliberating the fate of Marc Dutroux and three co-defendants in a horrific child rape and murder case.

The jury of eight women and four men was sequestered Monday in an army barracks following the 3 1/2 -month trial in which they heard testimony from more than 500 witnesses, including the only two surviving victims, Laetitia Delhez and Sabine Dardenne.

Dutroux, 47, is charged with three murders _ of two teenage girls and an alleged accomplice _ as well as kidnapping and sexually abusing four other girls in 1995-96. At the time, he was out on parole after serving a prison sentence for raping young girls in ...

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