Sabine Dardenne

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Sabine Dardenne (born October 28, 1983 in Tournai ) is a Belgian who, as a twelve-year-old girl, was kidnapped by the sex offender Marc Dutroux on her way to school , imprisoned for 80 days in the perpetrator's home and mistreated . She is one of two surviving victims. She testified in 2004 at the trial against her kidnapper. She also brought out the book Seeing Him in the Eyes .

Life

On May 28, 1996, the then twelve-year-old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by her kidnapper Marc Dutroux on her way to school in Cain, Belgium . The girl was dragged from her bicycle and taken away in a white van . The kidnapper drove the child to his home in Charleroi and locked them in a cellar dungeon. There the girl survived for 80 days.

Marc Dutroux had sexually abused and raped the girl several times during his captivity . She was rescued from the house on August 15, 1996 by the Belgian police, together with 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez, who was abducted from the street in Bertrix on August 9, 1996 . She was in the hands of her tormentor for six days. Marc Dutroux was arrested on August 13.

On November 5, 2004, her book Seeing Him in the Eye was published in German bookshops. In this book Sabine Dardenne describes the experiences during her imprisonment . She says she was drugged and carried to the kidnapper's house in Charleroi with a metal box. There she was laid naked on the bed and tied around her neck with a chain. In the basement she had to sleep on a dirty mattress while the kidnapper assaulted her.

Sabine Dardenne graduated from high school and has been working in a mail order company ever since . She would have loved to become a police officer. On April 19, 2004, eight years after her abduction, she appeared as the main witness in the trial of Marc Dutroux in the Arlon courtroom . There, the then 20-year-old woman explained how her kidnapper had tormented and humiliated her.

Autobiography

  • J'avais 12 ans, j'ai pris mon vélo et je suis partie à l'école ... Oh éditions, Paris 2004; Paperback, ibid. 2005, ISBN 2-266-15366-8 .
    • German edition: look him in the eye. My lost childhood. Droemer, Munich 2004; Knaur Taschenbuch, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-426-77847-5 .

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