The court also ordered that Didier Bourguet, 44, undergo psychiatric treatment.

Bourget was accused of raping some 20 girls aged between 12 and 18 while posted in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1998 and 2004.

The Frenchman, who was responsible for the maintenance of United Nations peacekeeping vehicles, admitted during the trial to having paid sex with the girls, but insisted they had consented.

DR Congo police arrested Bourguet in the eastern city of Goma in October 2004 and turned him over to France. French state prosecutor Pierre Kramer rejected his defense and said Bourguet showed “an absence of compassion for his victims” living in harsh economic conditions.

Kramer argued that the girls were “under duress given their age and the economic context” of their countries.

The prosecution had asked the Paris court to sentence him to 12 years.

Prosecutors told the court that Bourguet sought out girls through go-betweens during his postings in the Central African Republic from 1998 to 2001 and in DR Congo from 2001 to 2004.

One of the victims, a Congolese girl now aged 16 and living in Canada, told the court she had been abused after being served a cup of tea that had made her dizzy.

A police officer testified that Bourguet had engaged in sexual acts with about 24 girls, paying between 10 and 20 dollars (seven to 14 euros) each time.

Lawyer Emmanuel Daoud representing one of the victims said that between 15,000 and 20,000 rapes were committed each year in the DR Congo by soldiers, rebels and, sometimes, UN personnel, he said.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5glcjuSJrjkztDUv98puErRSXJ1DA

It stated to be “first electronic data base of this type in the world”. Contrary to a site like Wikipedia, each contribution will have to receive the approval of qualified specialists.

So we at Terroritory.com, are putting them to the test and submitting an article on Didier Bourguet

Didier Bourguet, the U.N. senior official who is charged with running an Internet pedophile ring in the Congo. Pictures taken from his personal computer contained thousands of photos of him with hundreds of girls. Police say Bourguet had turned his bedroom, plastered with mirrors and rigged with remote-control cameras, into a stealth porn studio. He was caught in a sting operation while allegedly preparing to rape a 12-year-old girl. He was shipped back to France to disappear from the public eye…or so they hoped.

I think Didier Bourguet could be part of a “Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence”.

But the French site doesn’t have any returns on the pedophile… or should I say, because of resistance of the French Justice system to prosecute him…. alleged pedophile.