{"id":28254,"date":"2024-09-02T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28254"},"modified":"2024-09-02T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T02:00:18","slug":"man-accused-of-recruiting-dozens-of-strangers-to-rape-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/09\/02\/man-accused-of-recruiting-dozens-of-strangers-to-rape-his-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of recruiting dozens of strangers to rape his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This story contains some distressing details.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

A man has gone on trial in France for repeatedly drugging and raping his wife as well as arranging for dozens of other men to rape her.<\/p>\n

The defendant, named as 71-year-old Dominique P, is accused of recruiting strangers online to come to his home and sexually assault the victim for over a decade.<\/p>\n

The woman was so heavily sedated she was not aware of the repeat abuse, her lawyers say.<\/p>\n

The case has horrified France for the mass scale of the grave crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police identified at least 92 rapes committed by 72 men. Fifty were identified and charged and are standing trial alongside the husband.<\/p>\n

The victim, now 72, only learnt of the abuse in 2020 after being informed by police.<\/p>\n

The trial will be “a horrible ordeal” for her, said her lawyer Antoine Camus, as it will be the first time she sees video evidence of the abuse.<\/p>\n

“For the first time, she will have to live through the rapes that she endured over 10 years,” he told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

Dominique P was investigated by police after an incident in September 2020, when a security guard caught him secretly filming under the skirts of three women in a shopping centre.<\/p>\n

Police then found hundreds of pictures and videos of his wife on his computer in which she appeared to be unconscious.<\/p>\n

The images are alleged to show dozens of assaults in the couple’s home. The abuse is alleged to have started in 2011.<\/p>\n

Investigators also found chats on a website in which Dominique P allegedly recruited strangers to come to their home and rape his wife.<\/p>\n

He admitted to investigators that he gave his wife powerful tranquilisers, including an anxiety-reducing drug.<\/p>\n

He is accused of taking part in the rapes, filming them and encouraging the other men using degrading language, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

No money is alleged to have changed hands.<\/p>\n

The accused rapists – aged between 26 and 74 – came from all walks of life and while most participated once, some took part up to six times, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Their defence is that they were helping a couple live out their fantasies but Dominique P told investigators that everyone was aware his wife had been drugged without her knowledge.<\/p>\n

An expert said her state “was closer to a coma than to sleep”.<\/p>\n

Dominique P, who said he was raped when he was nine, is ready to face “his family and his wife”, his lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told news agency AFP.<\/p>\n

He has also been charged with a 1991 murder and rape, which he denies, and an attempted rape in 1999, which he admitted after DNA testing.<\/p>\n

The trial, which is being held in Parc des Expositions in Avignon, southern France, is due to last until 20 December.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the opening day of the trial, the woman turned up to court supported by her three children, AFP reported.<\/p>\n

Mr Camus, her lawyer, said she could have opted for a trial behind closed doors, but “that’s what her attackers would have wanted”.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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