A court in Avignon is set to render its verdict in a high-profile mass rape trial that has captured the attention of France and the world. Dominique Pelicot, a 72-year-old man, is facing sentencing for his alleged involvement in the repeated rape and solicitation of strangers to abuse his heavily sedated then-wife, Gisele Pelicot, over a span of ten years.
During the trial, Dominique Pelicot confessed to using an online chatroom called Coco to recruit men to rape his wife. He expressed a disturbing sentiment by stating that he considered himself a rapist just like the others involved in the case.
