Daughter of Dominique Pélicot testifies that father drugged, raped her

The daughter of the deranged French man on trial for drugging his spouse and recruiting dozens of males to rape her believes she was additionally a sufferer of the sick scheme — calling her father “the worst sexual predator of the final 20 years.”

Caroline Darian, 45, took the stand in Avignon courtroom Friday in opposition to her father 71-year-old Dominique Pélicot, who’s accused of filming males raping his spouse, Gisèle, 72, for years whereas she was drugged unconscious.

The distraught daughter recognized herself because the nude, unconscious lady who appeared in two footage on Pélicot’s pc. Hundreds of others depicted varied males, together with neighbors, abusing Gisèle.

“I noticed instantly I used to be drugged in that photograph,” stated Darian, who wrote a e-book in regards to the ordeal, “And I Stopped Calling You Daddy.”

A choose beforehand instructed the courtroom that the pictures had been saved in a file titled, “Round my daughter, bare. Darian testified Friday that they had been captioned “the slut’s daughter.”

Darian described the crude comment as “past its inaudible vulgarity,” and stated, “the caption makes me need to vomit,” Le Monde reported.

The point out of the pictures in courtroom earlier this week despatched a visibility trembling Darain storming out of the courtroom.

In one of many footage, Darian seems “in another person’s underwear.” 

The girl suspects she was drugged and brutally raped by strangers in the identical vogue as her mom, an accusation Pélicot has denied.

“How does an individual like me heal, hope to have a traditional lady’s life, a traditional intercourse life?” Darian requested the courtroom. “How does one rebuild oneself from the ashes figuring out their father is undoubtedly the worst sexual predator of the final 20 years?”

Pélicot has not been charged with abusing Darian, however has been accused of invading her and her two step-sisters’ privateness for “taking, recording or transmitting” a sexual picture of her with out their consent.

Darian appeared in courtroom a number of instances this week alongside her mom, who police consider was unknowingly raped a minimum of 92 instances by a minimum of 72 totally different males.

Of these, they consider they’ve recognized 51 of them, all of whom are additionally being tried and withstand 20 years in jail if convicted. They embody a fireman, a jail guard, a nurse and a journalist.

Officers say Pélicot recruited the rapists by an internet site and instructed them to undress exterior the bed room and go away on the slightest signal Gisèle was awake. On these boards, he allegedly admitted to giving his spouse highly effective tranquilizers to knock her out earlier than the abuse came about.

The case got here to mild in 2020 when the sicko was filming up ladies’s skirts in a shopping mall.

Pélicot faces 50 years in jail if he’s discovered convicted on rape expenses.

Pélicot has additionally been charged in a separate case with raping and murdering a 23-year-old property agent in Paris in 1991, which he denies, in addition to an tried rape in 1999, which he has admitted after a DNA match.