Gisele Pelicot's daughter fears dad raped her after spotting sick twist in photo
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Gisele Pelicot's daughter is "convinced" her sick father is "lying" about what really happened to her in their family home. Caroline Darian, the daughter of brave rape survivor Gisele Pelicot, has spoken out for the first time since her father, Dominique Pelicot, was sentenced to 20 years behind bars for sedating and raping his wife, 72, and inviting dozens of strangers to sexually abuse her. The former electrician, 71, was sent to jail last month and will likely die behind bars following a landmark trial in France.
During the trial, the court heard that Pelicot had 3,800 photos and videos of his wife being sexually abused saved on a USB drive, called 'abuses'. Chillingly, there were also images of his daughter, Caroline, 45, which were saved as 'around my daughter, naked'.
As well as being sentenced for drugging and raping his wife, Pelicot was also found guilty of taking indecent images of his daughter, Caroline, and his daughters-in-law, Aurore and Celine. In the courtroom, Caroline's older brother David, 50, confronted his father about the disturbing pictures. He said: "If you have any little bit of humanity left, tell the truth about what you did to my sister, who is still suffering every day and will suffer all her life". Pelicot shouted back that he had never abused his children and asked for forgiveness from his eldest son, to which David replied: "Never".
Pelicot vehermently denies abusing his daughter, but Caroline says she is "certain" that he did rape her, but she does not have the evidence to prove it. Speaking to presenter Emma Barnett on BBC Two's Pelicot Trial: The Daughter's Story, which airs tonight at 7pm, Caroline recalls the moment she first saw the photos of herself at the police station. She explains: "I was shown two pictures of me, totally unconscious, with pants which are not mine. I was in shock.".
