Gisele P's daughter speaks out as the trial, in which she hears how her father drugged and raped her mother over decades by her father.
READ MORE: Dominique Pelicot now being investigated for rape and MURDERFor the millions of captivated viewers watching worldwide, the sentencing of depraved rapist Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men for the decade-long sexual abuse of his unwitting wife Gisele yesterday brought the horrific saga to a close.
She said the ordeal, plus the trying court proceedings, have caused her to 'lose her mother', with Pelicot's heinous actions having driven a stake through the heart of his family. The majority of the horrific photos and videos found meticulously catalogued on Pelicot's hard drives depicted various strangers abusing an unconscious Gisele.Though there was no direct evidence that married mother-of-one Caroline was sexually abused, she strongly believes she was drugged by her father and says she will never know for sure if she was also raped.
'Because of my father, I am losing my mother,' a desperate Caroline wrote after learning that despite being banned from contacting his wife, Pelicot had smuggled a letter from prison to Gisele via another prisoner, in which he begged forgiveness and pleaded with her not to abandon him. 'Bit by bit she's settling into a kind of numbness in order to protect herself while I'm fighting with all my might against my own demons.'
Gisele Pelicot leaves the courthouse after hearing the verdict of the court that sentenced her ex-husband to the maximum term of 20 years jail She explained how Pelicot - whom she now calls her 'progenitor' - tirelessly accompanied her to school and dance classes, drove her to and from parties in her teens and later went on to show the same care for his grandkids, splashing about with them in the swimming pool in Mazan.That's not to say there weren't some signs in the years prior to the skin-crawling revelation of Dominique's crimes that the Pelicots' once blooming relationship was strained.
As the various symptoms of her abuse grew ever more difficult to ignore, Mr Pelicot committed to a deplorable approach of manipulation and gaslighting to avoid suspicion. Caroline claimed that when Gisele told her husband she needed treatment for the unexplained illness, he remarked: 'So, what are you doing with your days?' and accused her of playing around while he was out playing boules or cycling.
It wasn't until officers sat Gisele down and confronted her with the undeniable evidence that the unconscious, gasping body she was watching being violated was her own did her litany of hitherto inexplicable symptoms make sense. Madame Pelicot was forced to relive the trauma that she experienced when police investigator showed her graphic films of her being raped repeatedly by her husband and dozens of strangers
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