By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-23 05:06:16 | Updated at 2024-11-23 09:13:43
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A court in southeast France on Friday sentenced to 20 years in jail a man who for years raped his teenage daughter and offered her up to strangers for sex.
The case echoed the ongoing high-profile trial that has shocked the nation in which 51 men are accused of raping Gisele Pelicot, drugged by her husband so he could invite strangers to their home to abuse her.
The 38-year-old father was convicted by the court in the southeastern Var region of forcing sexual acts on his daughter from the age of 13.
Prosecutor Estelle Bois described how the father exercised total control over the young girl, his adoptive daughter.
He also brought her to other men, many of them much older, who he contacted through online classified ads.
The father claimed to the other men that he and his daughter were both consenting adults living out a sexual fantasy. But he was convicted and sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison, in line with the demands of the prosecutors.
