In the wake of a harrowing legal proceeding in December, Gisèle Pélicot’s ex-husband, Dominique Pélicot, was handed a 20-year prison sentence for a heinous crime. He had been drugging Gisèle and orchestrating the rape of her by dozens of men in their French home over nearly a decade. Now, the story takes a new turn as their daughter, Caroline Darian, steps forward to share her own suspicions of abuse at the hands of the convicted rapist.
Unlike the well-documented case of her mother’s abuse, there is currently no concrete proof of what Dominique may have done to Darian. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the 46-year-old daughter of Gisèle and Dominique, both 72, opened up about her deep-seated fears. She is convinced that her father also drugged her, suspecting that it was a precursor to sexual abuse, yet she lacks the evidence to support her claims.