“Did he drug me too?”: Giselle Pelicot’s daughter feared that she too was a victim of her father, the “Avignon monster”

When detectives told Carolyn Darian that her father was putting a potent mix of drugs in her mother’s food and drink and inviting strangers to rape her, she thought nothing else could shock her. A few hours later, however, an urgent call to return to the police brought more devastating news. Among the 20,000 photos and videos her father Dominique Pelico had taken of her mother Giselle’s abuse were two images of a much younger woman sleeping in a bed. At first Darian didn’t recognize the face in the photos. “The quilt was lifted up on the right side so that her bottom could be seen up close. He was sleeping. I found her to be amazingly pale and with dark circles under her eyes. The policeman gave me the second photo. The sheets reminded me of something but nothing more. I repeated that I did not recognize myself,” she recalls. “No, it’s not me, […]
Source: News Beast

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