{"id":205348,"date":"2024-12-20T00:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T00:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/20-year-sentence-for-husband-of-gisele-pelicot-as-51-men-guilty-in-mass-rape-trial-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T00:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T00:03:28","slug":"20-year-sentence-for-husband-of-gisele-pelicot-as-51-men-guilty-in-mass-rape-trial-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/20-year-sentence-for-husband-of-gisele-pelicot-as-51-men-guilty-in-mass-rape-trial-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"20-year sentence for husband of Gis\u00e8le Pelicot as 51 men guilty in mass rape trial | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/sRPwjEcT_9s\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"20-year sentence for husband of Gis\u00e8le Pelicot as 51 men guilty in mass rape trial | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sRPwjEcT_9s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Judges in the French city of Avignon have sentenced Dominique Pelicot to 20 years in prison for aggravated rape after he drugged and abused his then wife, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, and invited dozens of strangers to rape her.<\/p>\n<p>Dominique stood accused alongside 50 other men. Of the 50 co-defendants found guilty, 46 were found guilty of rape, two guilty of attempted rape, and two guilty of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>For almost a decade, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot was unknowingly given sedatives by her ex-husband, who has admitted to raping her and inviting men he had recruited online to have sex with her in her bed at home while she was unconscious and unaware.<\/p>\n<p>Although Dominique Pelicot admitted the charges against him, most of the other men on trial denied what they did was rape.<\/p>\n<p>It was Gis\u00e8le&#8217;s decision to waive her anonymity and throw this trial into the open &#8211; in her words, making &quot;shame swap sides&quot; from the victim to the rapist &#8211; something which has turned the 72-year-old into a feminist icon.<\/p>\n<p>Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Andrew Harding in Avignon.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges in the French city of Avignon have sentenced Dominique Pelicot to 20 years in prison for aggravated rape after he drugged and abused his then wife, Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, and invited dozens of strangers to rape her. 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