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French mass rape trial: Abused Pelicot family torn apart in public

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Gisèle Pelicot , 71 , was drugged by her former husband and abused for a decade .

She waived her anonymity and allowed the public to see what she had endured.

She was, in her own words, treated “like a rag doll, like a garbage bag’s.

Her middle child, Caroline Darian , 45 , screamed her anguish at her father in court as she demanded to know the truth about photos found on his computer.

Dominique Pelicot is facing 20 years in jail the maximum sentence for rape in France .

The trial has exposed the banality’ of abuse in the family of the Pelicots .

The eldest of the children, David , is a burly man of 50 who bears a striking resemblance to his father.

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58

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52

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41

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informal

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English

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40

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offensive

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short-lived

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