Gisele Pelicot's daughter says mother ‘would die' before acknowledging she was victim of rapist father too
Caroline Darian, the daughter of French serial rape victim Gisèle Pelicot, says she thinks her mother would 'die' if she acknowledged that her daughter was also a potential victim of Dominique Pelicot.
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