The notorious accomplice and ex-wife of paedophile serial killer Marc Dutroux won parole on Tuesday midway through her 30-year jail sentence – on condition she moved into a convent.
Loud cries of “Death” and “Protect our children” rang out as Belgium’s “most-hated woman” arrived at the nunnery in the village of Malonne in southern Belgium at about 10:30pm (2030 GMT), an AFP correspondent witnessed.
Dutroux was finally jailed for life in 2004 for the kidnap and rape between 1995 and 1996 of six young and teenage girls, and the murder of four of his victims.
Martin too was sentenced in 2004 for helping him hold the girls captive and for complicity in the deaths of two of them found starved to death in a locked cellar.
She will not enter religious life, but will work in the convent. However, she is also free to leave the grounds so long as she avoids the area where the murders occurred and does not talk with the media.
She is required to pay compensation to the victims’ families, continue with therapy she has been receiving, and is subject to being recalled before the court
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