Why Are Some Rapes More Equal Than Others?

Some rapes are committed by the right kind of person. Some rapes are committed by the wrong kind of person. Allegations of the former sort you hear about all the time, as with the alleged crimes of liberal media hate-figures like Andrew Tate, Donald Trump and various members of the Roman Catholic Church. Allegations of the latter sort you almost never hear about, as with the alleged crimes of Pierre-Alain Cottineau, a man of whose existence most readers will be blissfully unaware.

To be honest, given the rather sickening nature of some of the things he is said to have done, I wish I had never heard of this particular individual either. According to recent investigation by the French newspaper Le Parisien, the 32-year-old Cottineau was a member of a paedophile ring operating in Brittany, who subjected extremely young children and babies to extreme acts of rape and torture.

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