"Marc Dutroux insisted yesterday that he was not a "lone predator" who kidnapped and raped young girls but part of a wider paedophile ring.'
Prosecutors accuse Dutroux, 47, of leading his own band of abductors rather than being the pawn of a well-connected crime ring whose existence has been widely rumoured but never proved. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment.
He insisted he had neither kidnapped nor raped the eight-year-olds but said he was responsible for all four who died because he "did not protect them enough".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/11/dutroux.ianblack