A woman who raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Paris three years ago was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
Dahbia Benkired, a 27-year-old woman from Algeria, must spend at least 30 years in prison for her crimes against Lola Daviet, BFMTV reported. She is the first woman in France to receive the sentence – the harshest under the French penal code, BFMTV added.
In October 2022, Daviet’s body was found mutilated and stuffed into a plastic box in a communal area outside the building she lived in, a statement from the Paris police prosecutor said at the time.
The victim’s body was discovered just hours after she…
