“RAPIST MAKER”
Prosecutors have requested a 16-year jail time period for Jerome V, a 46-year-old who additionally sought to participate within the abuse six occasions.
His lawyer Gaele Guenoun warned the court docket towards making an instance of her consumer.
She mentioned Jerome V, a grocery retailer worker, had admitted to rape throughout his six visits and apologised to Gisele Pelicot.
However, she argued, he had “fallen into Dominique Pelicot’s internet”, describing the primary defendant as a “rapist maker”.
The lawyer of one other co-defendant Redouane A., who has rejected accusations he dedicated rape throughout his two visits, requested for him to be acquitted as an alternative of jailed for 12 years as requested by the prosecution.
Henri Amr spoke of his 40-year-old consumer’s “emotional, social and sexual distress”.
He mentioned the defendant – who he described as “psychotic” and having suffered from “psychological retardation” since childhood – had been “manipulated” by Dominique Pelicot after assembly him on-line into believing he was participating in a pair’s fantasy.
“Doped up on pornographic photos, this man believed him. He believed him and returned a second time,” he mentioned.
Lead prosecutor Laure Chabaud final week rejected this argument of so-called consent by proxy as one “from one other period”.
