Dominique Pelicot's daughter breaks silence on dad's abuse and sick underwear riddle
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Caroline Darian screamed "you'll die like a dog" to her father as his sick crimes were exposed in court, and now she's spoken out for the first time since he was jailed. Her life changed forever with a devastating phone call from her mother Gisele Pelicot, who had just discovered her husband had been drugging and raping her for over a decade.
Dominique Pelicot, 71, invited dozens of strangers into their home to sexually abuse Gisele as she lay unconscious. The mum, 72, was sedated and raped at least 200 times between 2011 and 2020 by more than 50 men, including soldiers, nurses and truck drivers, who have now been convicted of aggravated rape or sexual assault.
Last month, following a landmark trial in France, Pelicot was found guilty of drugging and raping his unwitting wife and will now likely die behind bars. The couple's three children bravely supported their mother throughout the trial, and now Caroline, 45, has spoken about the family's hidden horrors - and the discoveries she made about her own abuse.
In a new BBC interview titled 'Pelicot Trial: The Daughter's Story', Caroline recalls the exact moment she discovered her father's horrendous crimes. She told presenter Emma Barnett that on one evening in November 2020, her mother called her out of the blue.
Initially, she thought Gisele was going to tell her that her father was dead, as it was during the Covid pandemic, and she suspected he might have fallen sick. But instead, distraught Gisele explained that Pelicot had been drugging her for 10 years, inviting strangers into their family home to rape her while she was unconscious.
