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Gisele Pelicots Mass Rape-Ex-Husband & 51 Men Sentenced to More Than 400 Years
Gisele Pelicots Husband Let 70 Strangers Mass Rape Wife as She Lay Unconscious
Dominique Pelicot found guilty of all charges in rape, drugging trial that shocked the world & 51 Men sentenced to total of more than 400 years
AP 20 DEC 2024
Gis?le Pelicot knew the father of six who lived a short distance away from her home. She would sometimes say hello to him at the local bakery.
He was a builder and once he came over to chat to her then-husband, Dominique Pelicot, about cycling.
What she didn't know was that wouldn't be the only time he visited her home.
Simone M. is just one of more than 70 men who was recruited online by Dominique Pelicot to rape his then-wife while she lay drugged and almost comatose on their bed.
Fifty of these men have now been sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison on various charges including rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.
Eleven other men who allegedly assaulted Gis?le Pelicot remain unidentified.
Simone M., 43, was sentenced to nine years in prison for his crimes.
Under French law, those found guilty are entitled to anonymity until after the 10-day appeal window has passed.
For almost a decade, Dominique Pelicot got away with his heinous crimes. Gis?le was oblivious.
Years later, when Gis?le Pelicot steeled herself to watch some of the 20,000 horrific videos and photographs documenting her own abuse collected by Dominique Pelicot, Simone M. would be the only man the grandmother recognised.
Most of the others lived within 50 kilometres of her home in the French town of Mazan.
Her husband had orchestrated it all.
Remember What I Said...
A Very Difficult Ordeal: Gisele Pelicots Statement After Mass Rape Trial
Speaking after the sentences were handed down in Avignon on Thursday, she said she "never regretted" making the trial public.
"I want any woman who wakes up one morning with no memories of the night before to remember what I said, so that no more women can fall prey," she told the court during the trial.
Abuse That Started at Dinner
In the evening, Dominique Pelicot would often cook dinner for his wife and bring her ice cream before bed.
"I used to say to him: how lucky am I, you're a darling, you really look after me," Gis?le Pelicot told the court.
But between 2011 and 2020, he crushed sedatives into her food or slipped them into her drink.
Meticulous Planning of MASS RAPE
While she slept, Dominique would take her pyjamas off, dress her in lingerie and allow men, sometimes more than one per night, to come to their house and assault her, often while she snored, and he filmed.
On her body, he would write degrading comments.
On the chest of drawers visible in some videos, smiling faces in family photos watched on.
No day was off limits. Gis?le was assaulted on her birthday, Valentine's Day and on New Year's Eve.
No place was sacred. She was once assaulted in her daughters bed in her beach house.
Meticulous measures were taken to avoid Gis?le finding out.
Dominique asked the men not to smell of alcohol, perfume or cigarettes.
After the men left, Dominique would bath her and put her pyjamas back on.
Gis?le would wake up not knowing what horrors had been inflicted on her while she slept.
But there were signs something was very wrong.
One time she looked in the mirror and did not recognise the haircut she had just received.
Another time, she noticed bleach marks on her trousers but had no memory of how they got there. Some days she would sleep for 18 hours, overcome with fatigue.
She became increasingly convinced she had a brain tumour or had developed Alzheimers, but tests from doctors kept coming back negative.
There were physical signs too.
"I consulted three gynaecologists. Several times I had woken up and felt like I had lost my waters ? as happens when you give birth," she told the court.
"The signs were there, but I never knew how to decode them."
Through it all, she was grateful for her supportive husband who would accompany her to appointments and reassure her.
Today, Gis?le is dealing with the trauma of her experiences and the consequences of four sexually-transmitted diseases.
The PERFERTED SLUG
Dominique Pelicot has been labelled one of the worst sexual offenders in Frances' recent history.
He received the maximum sentence of 20 years for drugging and raping his then-wife, and inviting others to sexually assault her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzYdaFLpXKU&t=9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1TTL7i05TE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-4fBckmknw
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