PARIS (LifeSiteNews) – A former Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks animator was sentenced to 25 years in a French prison on sex trafficking, child rape, and child pornography charges for availing himself of websites through which he remotely directed the sexual assault of children as young as two years old for his own amusement.
French newspaper Le Monde reported that 59-year-old Bolhem Bouchib, whose credits include work on Lilo & Stitch, both Incredibles films, Ratatouille, and last year’s Elemental, was found guilty of paying Filipino women to rape and abuse Filipino girls averaging between the ages of five and 10 for him to view on the internet over the course of nearly a decade, paying as much as $1,000 per livestream between 2012 and 2021.
On one side, “you have the graphic designer who amazes children (…) then on the court side, Bohlem Bouchib is a pedophile director who writes his own films of’ horror,” advocate general Philippe Courroye said. Bouchib had confessed to his “horrible” and “disgusting” crimes, but his defense argued he should be shown leniency in light of his supposed “psychological evolution” since his 2021 arrest.
Babel added that, in addition to serving his sentence and paying restitution to the victims, Bouchib will be barred from working with children upon his eventual release and be closely monitored for another 20 years.
This is not Bouchib’s first offense of this nature; in 2014 he was placed on the French sex offender registry for molesting the eight-year-old daughter of his then-partner, although he only served two years’ probation. […]
— Read More: www.lifesitenews.com
