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Catherine Porter

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108 total appearances

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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.

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.

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

Well, in the French press, they started calling them Monsieur Tout Le Monde, Mr. Everyman, because really, when you look at them... the guys who have been charged range in age from late 20s to in their 70s, their grandfathers. Many of them are fathers themselves. They kind of span all the range of middle class or working class men in small town France. They're truck drivers or carpenters.

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

Well, in the French press, they started calling them Monsieur Tout Le Monde, Mr. Everyman, because really, when you look at them... the guys who have been charged range in age from late 20s to in their 70s, their grandfathers. Many of them are fathers themselves. They kind of span all the range of middle class or working class men in small town France. They're truck drivers or carpenters.

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

One of them is an IT specialist in a bank, another is a journalist. A number of them have history of drug or alcohol abuse, and some of them have their own history of sexual assault in their own lives as children. But the thing that's the most remarkable about them is that they just seem like, you know, Your next-door neighbor. They could be your next-door neighbor.

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

One of them is an IT specialist in a bank, another is a journalist. A number of them have history of drug or alcohol abuse, and some of them have their own history of sexual assault in their own lives as children. But the thing that's the most remarkable about them is that they just seem like, you know, Your next-door neighbor. They could be your next-door neighbor.

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

And in the end, that's what really shocked a lot of French people is that they were their next-door neighbors.

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

And in the end, that's what really shocked a lot of French people is that they were their next-door neighbors.