Dominique Pelicot, along with 49 others, is on trial for organizing the repeated rape and sexual abuse of his drugged and unconscious wife. His lawyer argues he was a good husband and father who turned to perversity after a traumatic childhood.
Gisele Pelicot's rapist husband who drugged her so dozens of other men could have sex with her was 'a good husband and father', a French trial has heard.
'People aren't born perverted, they become it,' Zavarro said, repeating her client's own words from his first courtroom questioning. Gisele Pelicot is pictured above walking next to journalists at the Avignon courthouse on November 27, 2024 'What comes next is of course the sentence you will issue, perhaps distancing yourselves a little from the strongest requested by prosecutors,' she told judges.
Dominique Pelicot's decade-long abuse was only uncovered after he was arrested for filming up women's skirts in public.
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