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Catherine Porter

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335 total appearances

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The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

The police come and they take not only his two cell phones and cameras he's using, but they go back to his house and get his laptop and some other electronics. And they discovered something pretty shocking on them. They found these pictures and videos of a woman who seemed to be unconscious being raped and some screen captures of conversations about raping her.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

Yeah, that is right. When all this is happening, Giselle is in Paris helping take care of some of her grandkids. So she only learns about it from her husband when she gets back. And he only tells her about the arrest at the store, not anything that the police have found on his electronics because he hasn't been confronted by that either.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

Yeah, that is right. When all this is happening, Giselle is in Paris helping take care of some of her grandkids. So she only learns about it from her husband when she gets back. And he only tells her about the arrest at the store, not anything that the police have found on his electronics because he hasn't been confronted by that either.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

He says he was caught, you know, filming up the skirts of women. And he's in tears. He apologizes. And she says her reaction is, I will stay with you because I've always stood beside you and I will forgive you. And their life kind of returns to what it was beforehand. And then in November, the cops call her and say, do you know what your husband's been charged for? And she says, yes, I do.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

He says he was caught, you know, filming up the skirts of women. And he's in tears. He apologizes. And she says her reaction is, I will stay with you because I've always stood beside you and I will forgive you. And their life kind of returns to what it was beforehand. And then in November, the cops call her and say, do you know what your husband's been charged for? And she says, yes, I do.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

I'm a little worried about it, but we're talking about it and we're going to work on it together. And they say, well, we'd like you to come down when he comes down for his next meeting at the police station. So That morning they get up, they have breakfast, she says, totally normal conversation. They get in the car, they drive to the police station.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

I'm a little worried about it, but we're talking about it and we're going to work on it together. And they say, well, we'd like you to come down when he comes down for his next meeting at the police station. So That morning they get up, they have breakfast, she says, totally normal conversation. They get in the car, they drive to the police station.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

He goes in to meet with some police officers and she goes in to meet with others. And they unload a bombshell to tell her that the life as she has known it is nothing, nothing like what she thinks it is.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

He goes in to meet with some police officers and she goes in to meet with others. And they unload a bombshell to tell her that the life as she has known it is nothing, nothing like what she thinks it is.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

They tell her that these videos they've been looking at on her husband's electronics are of an unconscious woman being raped by him, and they believe it's her. And they believe not only that her husband has been drugging her in order to rape her, but he has been inviting strangers into their home to join him in raping her.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

They tell her that these videos they've been looking at on her husband's electronics are of an unconscious woman being raped by him, and they believe it's her. And they believe not only that her husband has been drugging her in order to rape her, but he has been inviting strangers into their home to join him in raping her.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

Not only married to, she's been with him since they were teenagers. She's built her entire life around this man. She has said that she contemplated committing suicide that night.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

Not only married to, she's been with him since they were teenagers. She's built her entire life around this man. She has said that she contemplated committing suicide that night.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

Because it would just be almost impossible to conceive of or to accept that the person that is your person has been so terribly betraying you.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

Because it would just be almost impossible to conceive of or to accept that the person that is your person has been so terribly betraying you.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

No, and it's even worse than that, Michael. Remember I told you about those horrible symptoms she had been suffering, the hair loss, the weight loss, but most worrying, the blackouts? Well, in the end, he was driving her to all these medical appointments, and it was the drugs he was mixing into her food and drink that were causing those symptoms in the first place.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

No, and it's even worse than that, Michael. Remember I told you about those horrible symptoms she had been suffering, the hair loss, the weight loss, but most worrying, the blackouts? Well, in the end, he was driving her to all these medical appointments, and it was the drugs he was mixing into her food and drink that were causing those symptoms in the first place.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

And in the meantime, the police are continuing their investigation. They find this hard drive in the couple's garage. And on the hard drive, they find about 20,000 photos and videos, most of them filed in a folder that Mr. Pellico had labeled abuse. And these are videos and photos of the rape scenes.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

And in the meantime, the police are continuing their investigation. They find this hard drive in the couple's garage. And on the hard drive, they find about 20,000 photos and videos, most of them filed in a folder that Mr. Pellico had labeled abuse. And these are videos and photos of the rape scenes.

The Daily
France’s Horrifying Rape Trial Has a Feminist Hero

In that bedroom at night when he's inviting men over, he's cut into a separate little either video or a photo to keep for himself. And through these 20,000 little data points, plus using his Skype conversations, they start tracking down these men and start arresting them in waves over many months.