Original sentence: In his own confession, Gilles testified that “when the said children were dead he kissed them and those who had the most handsome limbs and heads he held up to admire them, and had their bodies cruelly cut open and took delight at the sight of their inner organs; and very often when the children were dying he sat on their stomachs and took pleasure in seeing them die and laughed...”.Shortly after, Gilles moved to Machecoul where, the record of his confession states, he killed or ordered killed a great but uncertain number of children after he committed sodomy upon them.The first documented case of child-snatching and murder concerns a boy about twelve-years-old called Jeudon, an apprentice to the furrier Guillaume Hilairet.There he was confronted with the true nature of its situation
Edited sentence: In his own confession, Gilles testified that “when the said children were dead, he kissed them and those who had the most handsome limbs and heads he held up to admire them, and had their bodies cruelly cut open and took delight at the sight of their inner organs; and very often when the children were dying he sat on their stomachs and took pleasure in seeing them die and laughed...”.Shortly after, Gilles moved to Machecoul where, as the record of his confession states, he killed, or ordered to be killed, a great but uncertain number of children after he committed sodomy upon them.The first documented case of child-snatching and murder concerns a boy of about twelve-years-old called Jeudon, an apprentice to the furrier Guillaume Hilairet.There he was confronted with the true nature of his situation