French father sentenced for raping his teen daughter for years and offering her up to strangers
Draguignan, France — A court in southeastern France on Friday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for raping his teenage daughter and offering her to strangers for sex over several years. The case echoes the ongoing high-profile trial that has shocked the country in which 51 men have been accused of rape Gisele Pelicot was drugged by her husband This allowed him to invite strangers into their home and abuse her.
The 38-year-old father was convicted by a court in the southeastern Var province of forcing his daughter to have sex starting when she was 13 years old. Prosecutor Estelle Bois described how the father exerted complete control over his adopted little girl. He also took her to other men, many of whom were much older, whom he contacted through online classified ads.
The father claimed to other men that he and his daughter were consenting adults living out sexual fantasies. But at the prosecutor’s request, he was convicted and sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
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Some of the defendants in the Pellicott case claim that the victim’s then-husband, Dominic Pellicott, gave them the same impression.
Like Dominique Pelicot, the father in Friday’s case, he directed, participated in and filmed sex acts involving his daughter, who was blindfolded during the encounter.
He admitted the charges but claimed in court that he was in a romantic relationship with the young girl and responded to sexual encounters initiated by her.
“It’s not about love, it’s about power and dominance. He doesn’t love (his daughter), he likes to have complete control over her, that she belongs to him, that she obeys him,” prosecutor Boyce said.
She also asked the judge to sentence the second defendant, the only other identified man who abused the girls, to 16 years in prison.
As in the Pellicott case, the second defendant, a man in his 60s with six children, was identified through photos and video records provided by his abuser’s father, this time through geolocation data.
The second defendant told the court he was deceived by his father’s claims that the girl had consented to three of his four meetings.
His lawyer, Christophe Mairet, said that in the fourth incident, “things went bad. Instead of behaving like a responsible person, he acted according to his own preferences and treated Abuse turned a blind eye.”
The girl, now 18, was accompanied in court by a golden retriever trained to comfort abuse victims. she has, Like Gisele Pelicot, rejected this option The trial was held behind closed doors.
In 2021, the then-15-year-old girl ended her abusive behavior by running away from her father after the violence and humiliation escalated. She ran away from her home in Cavalère-sur-Mer, south of the luxury resort of Saint-Tropez, and was taken to the police station by a holidaymaker.
While she was on the run, her father kept calling and texting her.
Closing arguments were held this week in Pelicot’s case, with verdicts and sentencing expected in December for her husband and dozens of co-defendants.
