A German couple has been jailed for raping and selling their 9-year-old son to pedophiles on the dark net

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• A German couple was jailed for raping the woman's son, and selling him to pedophiles for a two-year period on the dark net.
• They were found guilty of charges including rape and forced prostitution of the boy on Wednesday.
• Abuse of the boy was filmed, with footage showing him tied up and verbally abused.
• Several other men have been convicted in separate trials for sexually abusing the boy.
• The boy, now 10, was nine years old when the trial began earlier this year.

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A woman and her boyfriend have been convicted for the repeated rape of the woman's young son and for selling him for sex over the internet.

The German couple was accused of allowing multiple men they found on the dark net to rape and abuse the boy in exchange for thousands of euros over the period of two years, Deutsche Welle reported.

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