Caroline Dorian, the daughter of Dominique Pelicot, said her father 'should die in prison' after he was convicted of drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, for almost a decade.
Caroline Dorian, the daughter of Dominique and Gisèle Pelicot, is now a key campaigner for victims of abuse. Dominique, 72, was convicted last month of aggravated rape and other charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison after he admitted to drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, for almost a decade. He invited dozens of strangers he met on the internet to join him in abusing Gisèle's unconscious body.
Caroline told the BBC that she doesn't believe her father is neither a 'monster' nor 'sick' and knows what he did. 'He is a dangerous man. There is no way he can get out. No way,' she said. Caroline’s mother phoned her in November 2020 to say she had discovered Dominique had been drugging her. 'At that moment, I lost what was a normal life,' Caroline told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. 'I remember I shouted, I cried, I even insulted him. It was like an earthquake. A tsunami.' Realising that her father was ‘one of the worst sexual predators of the last 20 or 30 years’ came with another revelation. The police showed her not long after her phone call with Gisèle photographs of an unconscious woman lying on a bed that officers believed was her. Caroline has now become a powerful voice in the fight against drugging someone with malicious intent, known in France as ‘chemical submission’. Weeks after the trial, she struggles to see the man behind bars for drugging and raping her mother as her father. ‘When I look back I don’t really remember the father that I thought he was. I look straight to the criminal, the sexual criminal he is,’ she said. ‘But I have his DNA and the main reason why I am so engaged for invisible victims is also for me a way to put a real distance with this guy. ‘I am totally different from Dominique.’ The case, however, is far from over. Of the 50 other men found guilty, 17 have lodged appeals, potentially plunging the family into more anguish. The 50 defendants, most found guilty of rape, received sentences from three to 15 years. Court officials have not confirmed the identity of the 17 men who filed nor why they have appealed. A new trial will take place this autumn. Dominique has said he will not appeal his sentence
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