A Paris court has sentenced a man to 18 years in prison for twelve rapes and three cases of sexual abuse. Several French media outlets reported the sentence in the high profile trial on Friday evening, saying he had been acquitted on two further counts, because of insufficient evidence to secure a conviction. On dating platforms and on social media, the man had posed as a fashion photographer looking for models and approached the women using an established pattern. The investigators described his modus operandus as “particularly organized” and “industrialized.” The photographer had been accuse…