Gisele Pelicot's ex-husband's depraved crimes were only uncovered after one sick mistake
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French police discovered a twisted man was behind the mass rape of his own wife by chance - after he was arrested for other perverse crimes. 'Monster of Avignon' Dominique Pelicot has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of drugging and raping her while allowing scores of others to do so. The rapist admitted how, for years, he drugged his wife of 50 years so he and strangers he recruited online could abuse her while he filmed the assaults. All 50 men were found guilty of charges ranging from sexual assault to rape and attempted rape.
Of the 83 men involved, 51 - aged between 26 and 73 - have been jailed for a total of 400 years after they were found guilty of charges including aggravated rape, sexual assault and possessing indecent images of children. Pélicot sedated his wife by putting tablets of a powerful anxiolytic drug into her evening dinner. He then invited men from an online forum into the couple's bedroom. Ms Pélicot was allegedly raped 92 times at their family home in Mazan, a commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
A panel of five judges in France first delivered verdicts for more than 50 men charged with the aggravated rape and sexual assault of Gisele Pelicot in a case that shocked the world - before handing out a collective total of 400 years jail time to 50 other defendants.
The sexual abuse - known to be part of the dark world of so-called 'chemical submission' - was filmed and stored on a USB drive dubbed 'Abuses' But he first came to the attention of police in September 2020, when a supermarket security guard caught him surreptitiously filming up women's skirts.
