Last Updated on 07/09/2024 by Arun jain
A French pensioner’s daughter accused of enlisting more than 70 men to rape her drug-addicted wife has described her father as the worst sex predator of the past 20 years.
Caroline Darien, 45, testified Friday on the fifth day of a court case against her father, Dominic Pellicote, that has shocked the nation.
“How do you rebuild yourself from the ashes when your father is undoubtedly one of the biggest sex predators of the last 20 years?” Ms. Darien, who uses a pen name, told the packed courtroom.
Pellicote, 71, is accused of abusing his wife of more than 50 years, Giselle Pellicote, and inviting men recruited from an online chat forum to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in Provence, between 2011 and 2020.
His alleged crimes were discovered by chance after he was arrested in 2020 for secretly filming up women’s skirts in a supermarket.
During her testimony, Ms. Darien looked up at the ceiling as she appeared close to tears.
She spoke of a close-knit family that overcame adversity and a loving and supportive father.
“I loved my father, I loved the image of the man I knew, I loved the image of this healthy, caring, thoughtful man,” she told the court.
After learning about her mother’s rape, Ms Darien was taken to a police station where she was shown photos of a naked woman lying in the fetal position.
At first he said he did not know the woman. “I don’t sleep like that,” she remembered thinking.
It was only after the investigator pointed out a brown spot on her cheek that she realized the photo was of her and that her father had taken it without her knowledge.
“There I find myself and I understand the man who was my father, in whom I had complete faith, in whom I had integrity, who respected his daughter, who was proud of her, who always encouraged her. It was, in fact, I find, my father photographed me naked, without my knowledge,” she said.
Ms Darien told the court she believed her father was also giving her drugs.
Pellicote’s daughters-in-law, Celine, 48, and Aurora, 37, also testified and spoke of feelings of violation after discovering their father-in-law had secretly taken photos of them in the shower and in their bathing suits without their consent.
Oror also recalled an incident in 2020 in which her school-going daughters asked their grandfather for a toy in a supermarket.
“He replied: ‘If you’ll pose naked for me I’ll be more than happy to get it for you,'” she said, adding that she always felt uncomfortable around her in-laws.
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