Gisele Pelicot's devastated family now from new name to daughter's ongoing torment
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Dominique Pélicot has been jailed for 20 years in the mass rape trial that has sent shockwaves around the globe. His wife Gisèle Pélicot was the principal victim in her ex-husband's sick enterprise, which saw her raped 92 times by strangers he invited into their bedroom between 2011 and 2020. The mother-of-three was sedated heavily so she wouldn't wake up, with evil Pélicot demanding his fellow abusers warm their hands and not smoke or wear perfume so their disturbing crimes wouldn't be detected.
The 72-year-old grandfather had escalated from drugging and raping his unsuspecting wife himself at their family home in France. A total of 51 men were sentenced today for their depraved actions towards Gisèle, 72, who bravely waived her anonymity in a bid to help other victims of sexual abuse.
The couple's daughter, Caroline Darian, 45, was also a victim of her father, who took indecent images of her and his two daughters-in-law. The family of five grew up in a big home 70 miles from Marseille. By 2010, children David, Caroline and Florian had flown the nest but visited regularly, with the couple planning an idyllic retirement in Mazan, a small village in Provence.
But by 2011, the trio were becoming increasingly concerned about their mother, who was suffering from ill health - constantly feeling tired, shedding weight, and even losing clumps of her hair. They had no idea their father was heavily sedating Gisèle so he and others could rape her but looking back, there were some suspicious moments.
