The French justice system has recorded the most bizarre cases of rape in its history.
Dominique Pelicot, a 72 year old French national has been jailed 20 years for allowing 50 men to rape his own wife.
He was found guilty of all charges by a French court. The 72 year old husband was found guilty of drugging his own wife and thereafter inviting other 50 different men into their home to rape her. This has apparently gone on for nearly a decade.
Th prosecution said for almost a decade, that is 2011, Mr Pelicot drugged his wife and raped her. Not only did he rape her, he also recruited other men from online to rape her as well while she was unconscious and in deep sleep.
The 50 men who raped Ms Pelicot were also trialed with him. They were all found guilty on at least one charge and also faced prison sentences.
Police could not even account for an additional 21 men who were seen in different videos on Domique’s laptop in a similar sexual misconduct but unrelated to his wife’s own
This case is said to be France’s larges ever rape case. On Thursday, 19 Dec, the verdict was finally read, bringing an end to a trail that started in September.
The victim, Ms Pelicot after the case said it was a “very difficult ordeal”. She however affirmed that she “never regretted” her decision to make the trial public.
She had been married to her husband for 50 years until she finally divorced him.
Out of the 50 men who engaged in the heinous act with Dominique, 46 were found guilty of rape. Two were found guilty of attempted rape and the other two found guilty of sexual assault.
Almost all the men agued that they were not aware Ms Pelicot was unconscious hence did not know it was rape.
However, video footage as evidence that was played in the court showed sounds of the victim snoring indicative of one in deep sleep.
The case has brought a lot of uproar and in the French community and the legal fraternity
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