Marc Dutroux Aleisha Rue 3/21/2011 6th hour

Profile Marc Dutroux was born November 6th, 1956 in Brussels, Belgium He isn’t died he is in prison He was the oldest of five children, his parents were both teachers He married at the age of 19 and fathered two sons The marriage didn’t last long they divorced early 1980’s\ Both his parents were teachers they always fought and often yelled and beat Dutroux when he was a young child. When his parents separated in 1971, Dutroux left home. At age 15, he was on the streets surviving with the money he earned as a homosexual prostitute.

He owned seven houses and only used four of them and known as the “House of Horrors” Leader of an international child pornography and prostitution ring After Dutroux's release from prison in 1989, he convinced a psychiatrist to declare him as disabled, offering him the opportunity to receive a government pension and also sleeping pills and sedatives that he later used on his victims.

Marc Dutroux was a pedophile, child rapist and killer He had six victims and only two of them survived aging from 8-19 He was caught and sent to prison but wasn’t put to death

He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein, later proved insane. He was arrested in 1996 and has been in prison ever since. His widely publicized trial took place in 2004. A number of shortcomings in the Dutroux investigation caused widespread discontent in Belgium with the country's criminal justice system, and the ensuing scandal was one of the reasons for the reorganization of Belgium's law enforcement agencies.

Eyewitness On May 28, 1996, 12-year-old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped and placed in the basement dungeon by Dutroux and possibly his accomplice Lelievre. Three months later, on August 9, 1996, 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez was on here way home from a public swimming pool when the pair allegedly kidnapped her and kept her in the dungeon with Dardenne. However, this time the police had an eye witness who gave police a part of the license plate that investigators were able to match to Dutroux

Sources Trutv.com http://crime.about.com/od/murder/p/dutroux.htm http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/d/marc_dutroux/index.html