Source: International Business Times
Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot's former husband has admitted to drugging his partner with sedatives and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her over a decade AFP Gisele Pelicot, 72, who became an icon for women in a mass rape trial last year that resonated around the world, is to reluctantly break months of silence to face in court the one man in the case who still denies he raped her. Gisele Pelicot's former husband admitted to drugging her with sedatives and inviting dozens of strangers to rape and abuse her over nearly a decade, in a case that has sparked horror, protests and a debate about male violence in French society. Her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot, who was handed the maximum term of 20 years in jail by a French court, and 49 other defendants are not appealing their sentences.
