"Facing court in his first trial, the construction worker said he is not a rapist, claiming that Dominique Pelicot had sent him a message saying that he and his wife were sexually adventurous and looking for someone to have sex with her while she "pretended to sleep." He also said that he had received a message supposedly from Gisele Pelicot saying that she had agreed to him coming over."
"He then continued for another half an hour, but decided to leave once he heard Gisele Pelicot snoring. Dominique Pelicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison.Image: BENOIT PEYRUCQ/AFP via Getty Images After being reminded by the judge of the legal definition of rape an act committed "through violence, constraint, threat of surprise" D. accepted the act was rape, though he insisted that he was not a rapist."
Husamettin D., a 44-year-old Turkey-born construction worker, was sentenced to nine years for rape and is appealing both conviction and sentence. He says Dominique Pelicot messaged that the couple were sexually adventurous and that Gisele had agreed to him coming over. He visited the Pelicot home once in 2019 and said he believed she pretended to sleep; he left after hearing her snoring. He accepted the legal characterization of the act as rape in court but maintained he was not a rapist. He is one of 17 men appealing and the last to maintain his innocence among 51 men convicted. Dominique Pelicot received a 20-year sentence for drugging and recruiting strangers to abuse his wife.
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