
Caroline Darian, «E ho smesso di chiamarti papà»
[And I Stopped Calling You Dad], Utet
The story was in all the newspapers. Gisèle Pelicot, 72, was drugged and raped over a ten-year period by her husband Dominique. Without her knowledge, he secretly gave her medication and sleeping pills and then abused her, documenting everything with videos and photos. In addition, he opened the door of their home to more than fifty different strangers, lured to their home through online chat rooms, then offering them Gisèle's helpless, sleeping body each time. This book was written by Caroline, one of Gisèle Dominique Pelicot’s three daughters. Among the pages of this terrible diary are memories of when Dominique was a father like many others and Caroline was a little girl. But this father simply no longer exists, so much so that Caroline, three months after being sentenced to 20 years in prison, reported her father for rape and attempted rape against her. It must not have been easy to expose herself in this way, but mother and daughter understood that they should not be ashamed of this story, far from it, and should pour all the shame onto their father and husband and on men who manipulate, drug and rape their wives, girlfriends and daughters, in a patriarchal delirium of domination.
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