Gisèle Pelicot, 71, is the woman at the centre of this trial, but no-one has emerged unscathed in her family.
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Netflix, Amazon and Apple are probably knocking on the door already. Carl Jung couldn’t do enough psychoanalysis here.
“The Pelicots’ middle child, Caroline Darian, now 45, screamed her anguish at her father in court as she demanded to know the truth about photos found on his computer. Entitled ‘My naked daughter’, the images show her semi-naked and, she says, clearly drugged.”
She has founded a charity to highlight the dangers of drug-induced assault and published a book in 2022 detailing her family’s trauma. In it, she hinted at a rift with her mother, who she found had dropped off a bundle of warm clothes for her father in jail, weeks after his crimes came to light.
‘I couldn’t believe it,’ Caroline wrote. ‘She was still looking after the person who got her raped for a decade.”
She already had a book in 2022? 10 years of abuse on the mother. 70 plus men so around 7 a year. Plus abuse of the daughter. People must have been falling like flies when this guy disappears to drug people during family gatherings.
“Stifling sobs, Florian, 38, the youngest of the family…
…He also spoke of his longstanding suspicion he was the product of an affair his mother had in the 1980s, which was compounded by a faint but lifelong feeling that his father loved his siblings more than him.
…He said he would seek out a paternity test, adding it would be a “‘elief’ not to be Dominique Pelicot’s son.”
The mother had an affair?
“Through tears, Florian painted a desolate picture of what his life had become. His marriage to the mother of his three children, Aurore, has not survived revelations that Dominique Pelicot also surreptitiously took photographs of her.
Aurore, herself a survivor of incest, is having to live with the regret of not having listened to her instincts regarding Mr Pelicot.“
What is this? Alcoholics tend to gravitate towards other alcoholics? There must be a syndrome describing this.
“The eldest of the Pelicot children, David, is a burly man of 50 who bears a striking resemblance to his father. Naked photographs of his wife Celine, pregnant with their twin daughters, were also found among Mr Pelicot’s files. She was in the bathroom, snapped with a hidden camera.”
This must have been a full time job. He was also out taking photographs up women’s skirts.
“The trauma rippling through this family seems without end. David’s son, now 18, wonders what really happened when Dominique asked him to ‘play doctor’ as a child.”
F#ck. Little boys too.
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