Lawyers of three men who repeatedly visited a French home to rape a woman while unconscious Wednesday pleaded for leniency, with one arguing that her "wolf" of a husband had manipulated his client.
In a trial that has shocked France since it opened in September, the main defendant, 72-year-old Dominique Pelicot, has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife Gisele Pelicot, now 71, after drugging her with sleeping pills.
