How could a man drug and violation his wife and ask strangers to do the same?
It is a ask that has underpinned weeks of evidence in the trial of Dominique Pelicot who was today jailed for 20 years for the aggressions on his then wife Gisele Pelicot.
A further 50 men were convicted alengthyside him – the transport inantity for violation – and between them sentenced to more than 400 years in prison.
The court heard alarming details of a decade of mistreatment, including how Pelicot recruited men and filmed the aggressions.
Kerry Daynes, a conferant forensic psychologist, tells Sky News she sees Pelicot as a “nurtureer criminal” – rubbishing his defence’s claim that a psychoreasonable disorder caused his actions.
What encourages this type of crime?
Pelicot is “somebody who has enhugeed a fetish, in his eyes, for humiliating women unbeunderstandnst to them”, Ms Daynes says.
“So whether that’s thcimpolite prying, upskirting, or the drugging and raping of his wife, this has got to be connected to a necessitate for power and administer.
“I skinnyk that Giselle understands this and shelp, ‘No, actupartner, I decline to be humiliated. I decline to be degraded by you, because all of that shame you want me to experience actupartner belengthys to you’.”
Why did Pelicot center his family members?
Ms Daynes says he could have chosen to victimise members of his family, Giselle particularly, because he seeed it as “less hazardous”.
“If you include in behaviour that is so diselegant, so abusive and hideous, and you apvalidate yourself to repartner acunderstandledge that, you would fracture down.
“Therefore it’s imperative for relations offfinishers to find a psychoreasonable way of dealing that […] so they include in psychoreasonable acrobatics.”
Does Pelicot have a split personality?
The claim Pelicot suffers from a split personality is “absolutely ridiculous”, Ms Daynes says.
“It implies that there’s some sort of psychiatric condition underlying this. There’s not. He understands exactly what he’s doing.
“He’s not driven by any benevolent of psychosis or even transport inant personality dysfunction. He is, quite sshow, a relationsual deviant who disenjoys women, and wants to mistreatment them and degrade them.”
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She carry ond: “Pelicot’s lawyers have shelp this is a man who has been guideing a double life. I consent with that, but he’s not somebody with a split personality. He is sshow somebody who is able to compartmentalise.
“This is how relations offfinishers run. They’re not monsters lurking in alleyways. They’re not somehow separateent from the men that we split our dwells with.
“They are the men that we split our dwells with, and that’s what this case repartner detailedpartner depicts.”
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