‘Faced with the unthinkable, we must fight back’: Gisele Pelicot’s daughter is combating drug-facilitated sexual abuse

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How Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter is fighting back against sexual abuse

Caroline Darian has turned the trauma of her father’s abuse into a ‘collective fight’

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‘Faced with the unthinkable, we must fight back’: Gisele Pelicot’s daughter is combating drug-facilitated sexual abuse

Caroline Darian bears ‘a crushing double burden’ as the daughter of Gisèle Pelicot and her tormentor. In her memoir, she processes her trauma by fighting for change.

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For a decade, the French woman Gisèle Pelicot was the victim of a series of sexual abuse secretly orchestrated by Dominique Pelicot, her then husband, with whom she had been married for more than 40 years. Without her knowledge, Dominique drugged her with sleeping pills and anxiolytics, and recruited dozens of men on the Internet to rape her while she was unconscious.These assaults were recorded in photos and videos by the man, and later kept th…