The daughter of the man who is accused of letting 50 men rape his unconscious wife fled court today after the trial heard he also photographed her while she was drugged.
Caroline Darian, alongside her mother and two siblings, broke down, shaking uncontrollably, and had to be helped from the courtroom in Avignon as the presiding judge made the harrowing revelation.
When police sifted through her father Dominique Pelicot's computer files, they stumbled across a sickening folder labelled 'My Daughter Naked', said Judge Roger Arata.
It was believed that, as with his wife, Gisele, Pelicot had rendered Caroline unconscious with tranquilisers before lying her on a bed - partially dressed in her mother's clothes - and photographed her.
The pictures had been taken at the family home near Paris, sometime before they moved south to Provence, in 2013.
The revelation came after 71-year-old Pelicot was accused of aggravated rape when police uncovered more than 20,000 photos and images of Gisele being sexually assaulted by a total of 72 strangers who were recruited on a forum called 'Without her knowledge' on the now-shut-down site coco.gg - as she lay comatose in bed having been drugged by her husband.
50 of them have been identified and are also on trial.
At least 35 of the defendants have pleaded not guilty and 14 guilty, including Dominique. One of the defendants is absent for unknown reasons, while another is on the run, according to The Telegraph.
Dominique, who appeared on the site under a pseudonym, today said he 'occasionally' took part in the forum but that it was 'not his habit'.
However, there is evidence that he sometimes used the word 'rape'. In addition, it was revealed that he told potential attackers that by giving his wife sleeping pills, he would be able to abuse her by engaging in practices she would have refused to.
He is said to have ordered 450 pills in the space of a year, The Telegraph reported.
The judge today read out a series of justifications from Gisele's alleged attackers standing trial.
One was quoted saying they believed it was all 'a couple's game', while another attacker said that 'the relationship had to take place at night in complete darkness because the woman was shy and hung up despite her desire. She would pretend to be asleep'.
Meanwhile, another said that 'as long as the husband was present, there was no rape'.
Other defendants also claimed to be under the 'sway' of Dominique who acted like a 'very controlling conductor'.
'I did what he asked but I didn't know why', another defendant claimed.
One defendant expressed regret for the victim said that he was 'as much a victim as she was', claiming to have been tricked by Dominique.
But the judge declared that 'the instructions were clear' to the attackers who were summoned by Gisele's husband.
The judge also said that 'none of the defendants had spoken to the victim' and that she was in a state 'closer to a coma than to sleep' during the alleged rapes.
'Come at night, without perfume or the smell of cigarettes. The men were to undress outside the bedroom, make no noise and leave at the slightest movement or sign that the victim was awake,' the judge said.
The judge, however, told the court that 10 of Gisele's alleged attackers have 'never been identified' by investigators.
According to German news outlet Bild, Dominque allegedly filmed the horrific attacks, got around by them and titled the files on his computer: 'Abuse / Night of September 6, 2020 with Charly for the 6th time'.
In addition, a video that was seized and quoted by French media, Dominique can be heard saying during a rape of his unconscious wife in October 2020: 'No! No! Not with your hands! Not with your nails. It will wake her up, she is ticklish!' The perpetrator wonders: 'It's crazy that she doesn't wake up!'.
Bild also reported that Dominique found his wife's potential rapists on the internet and lured them through a dating website, through which he discussed his sick plans.
French newspaper Libération obtained some of the quotes from the heinous conversations between Dominique and his wife's rapists.
'Do you still have them tested from time to time? Clean and safe?', one chat partner asked.
'No, she puts it down to tiredness,' Dominique replied.
'You're like me. You're into rape mode,' he wrote to another interested party.
Dominique is currently standing trial in the French city of Avignon close to his home in Mazan, which is due to last until December 20.
But the Pelicots' adult children all initially told investigators that they had no reason to suspect their father had committed such heinous acts against their mother prior to his arrest.
Their eldest son said nothing in his father's behaviour suggested any deviance and that 'he had always fulfilled his role as a father', while Caroline spoke fondly of her father's presence in her life as a young girl.
But the dark revelation of their father's deeds plunged the family into chaos, and set Caroline down a new path.
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