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France's #MeToo: Book on child-sex writer prompts outcry

by Associated Press
| January 14, 2020 12:05 AM

PARIS (AP) — He was a middle-aged French author becoming known, even celebrated, for writing about sex with children. She was a fragile 14-year-old, too young to foresee the damage she says was done to her life by his predatory grip on her body and mind.

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