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Sophia Khatsenkova

First woman in France sentenced to life without parole for rape and murder of schoolgirl

Dahbia Benkired has been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for raping, torturing, and killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in 2022, the first time such a sentence has ever been handed down to a woman in France.

A Paris court handed down the maximum sentence to 27-year-old Dahbia Benkired on Friday, following her conviction for the rape, torture, and murder of Lola Daviet, whose body was found in a plastic trunk outside her home in northeastern Paris.

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