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Congolese singer Koffi Olomide, seen here in 2005, was on trial after four former dancers claimed he sexually assaulted them several times between 2002 and 2006. [File, AFP]
A French court on Monday handed Congolese singer Koffi Olomide a two-year suspended prison sentence for the statutory rape of one of his former dancers when she was 15.
Olomide went on trial after four former dancers claimed he sexually assaulted them several times between 2002 and 2006. The assaults allegedly happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as in France, including at a villa outside Paris where the women said they were held against their will.
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