Not unprecedented in Europe. Remember ANGERS, FRANCE?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4697747.stm
excerpt:
"… The abused were aged from six months to 14 years, and some of them were prostituted and raped by their own parents and grandparents, in a poor district of the town in western France.
Sometimes they were offered to strangers in return for small amounts of money, food, alcohol or cigarettes.
The accused were mostly from deprived backgrounds and many of them were unemployed and had learning difficulties. Some were illiterate and appeared not to fully understand the charges they faced, defence lawyers said.
A number said they had been sexually abused themselves as children…"