STRASBOURG, France: A French mother who held down her four-year-old son while he was raped by his stepfather in a prison visiting room was sentenced on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) to a maximum 20 years in jail.

Her partner, 31-year-old Lionel Barthelemy, who has been jailed since August 2009 for violence, also received the same sentence from the court in Strasbourg, eastern France.

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