(UPDATE) A FRENCH court sentenced a graphic artist who worked on beloved animated feature films for Pixar and Disney to 25 years in jail for ordering the livestreamed rape of hundreds of preteen girls in the Philippines, a case that has triggered a call for action here.

The Paris court late Thursday found Bouhalem Bouchiba, 59, guilty of complicity in the rape of girls and in human trafficking and of viewing child pornography online.

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