The daughter of the convicted French rapist Dominique Pelicot has filed a authorized grievance towards her father accusing him of drugging and sexually abusing her, months after he was jailed for drugging and raping her mom, Gisèle Pelicot.
Caroline Darian, 46, believes she was sedated and sexually assaulted or raped by her father over a interval of doubtless 10 years between 2010 and 2020, when she was in her 30s. She mentioned she had filed a authorized grievance for sexual abuse with the prosecutor “as a message to all victims” that “you will need to by no means hand over”.
Gisèle Pelicot turned a feminist hero final 12 months for insisting on a public trial for her ex-husband who was sentenced to twenty years in jail for drugging and raping her and alluring dozens of males to rape her when she was unconscious in her residence within the south of France over nearly a decade of their marriage.
A complete of 50 different males, together with a nurse, soldier, journalist and jail warden, had been convicted of rape, tried rape or sexual assault after Dominique Pelicot made contact with males on-line inviting them to rape his then spouse, who he had drugged.
Among the many detailed data that Dominique Pelicot saved had been footage of his daughter, Darian, bare or semi-naked. She instructed the courtroom that in two pictures she was unconscious on a mattress and was sporting underwear she didn’t recognise as her personal, ready she by no means slept in. She mentioned she felt sure she had been drugged and possibly abused.
Dominique Pelicot was convicted for taking indecent photos of Caroline Darian that invaded her privateness, however he was not charged with drugging, raping or sexually abusing her.
On the trial he repeatedly mentioned he had “by no means touched” his daughter. She instructed him in courtroom: “I do know you abused me. You don’t have the braveness to inform me.”
Darian instructed Agence France-Presse: “Sure, he denied it, however he additionally lied a number of occasions and gave completely different variations of the story through the two and a half years of the investigation.”
Darian has mentioned the preliminary investigation didn’t prioritise her case or sufficiently look into her allegations of drugging and sexual abuse. She mentioned she was given no knowledgeable toxicological testing or gynaecological testing.
Her lawyer, Florence Rault, mentioned this week that the allegations should now be pursued with “critical and detailed investigations”.
Beatrice Zavarro, Dominique Pelicot’s lawyer, instructed BFMTV that the grievance was “not a shock” as a result of Darian had made the allegations on the trial.
Zavarro mentioned that, earlier than final 12 months’s trial, the state prosecutor had mentioned there weren’t ample components to pursue a cost towards Pelicot on the allegations.
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