Dominique Pélicot’s daughter says her father drugged and raped her

The daughter of the mentally disturbed Frenchman on trial for drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of men to rape her believes she too was a victim of this sick plot, describing her father as “the worst sex offender of the last 20 years”.

Caroline Darian, 45, testified in court in Avignon on Friday against her father, 71-year-old Dominique Pélicot, who is accused of filming men for years raping his wife Gisèle, 72, while she was unconscious under the influence of drugs.

The distraught daughter identified herself as the naked, unconscious woman seen in two photos on Pélicot’s computer. Thousands of other photos showed various men, including neighbors, abusing Gisèle.

“I immediately realized that I was drugged in the photo,” said Darian, who wrote a book about the ordeal, “And I Stopped Calling You Daddy.”

A judge had previously told the court that the images were kept in a file titled “Around my naked daughter.” Darian testified Friday that they were captioned “The slut’s daughter.”

Darian described the crude remark as “beyond unbelievable vulgarity” and said: “The caption is sickening,” Le Monde reported.

When the pictures were mentioned in court earlier this week, Darain stormed out of the courtroom, visibly shaking.

In one of the pictures, Darian can be seen “in another person’s underwear.”

The woman suspects that she was drugged by strangers and brutally raped in the same way as her mother, an accusation that Pélicot denies.

“How can a person like me heal and hope to have a normal life as a woman and a normal sex life?” Darian asked the court. “How can you rebuild yourself from the ashes when you know that your father is undoubtedly the worst sex offender of the last 20 years?”

Pélicot has not been charged with abusing Darian, but he is accused of invading the privacy of her and her two stepsisters by “taking, recording or transmitting” a sexual image of her without her consent.

Darian appeared in court several times this week with her mother. According to police, she was raped at least 92 times by at least 72 different men without their knowledge.

They believe they have identified 51 of them. All of them are also on trial and face up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Among them are a firefighter, a prison guard, a nurse and a journalist.

According to official sources, Pélicot recruited the rapists through a website and instructed them to undress outside the bedroom and disappear at the slightest sign that Gisèle was awake. In these forums, he allegedly admitted to giving his wife powerful sedatives to render her unconscious before the abuse.

The case came to light in 2020 when the madman filmed women up their skirts in a shopping mall.

If Pélicot is found guilty of rape, he faces 50 years in prison.

In another case, Pélicot is also accused of raping and murdering a 23-year-old real estate agent in Paris in 1991, which he denies. He is also alleged to have committed an attempted rape in 1999, which he admitted after a DNA comparison.