(UPDATE) AVIGNON, France — A court in southern France on Thursday sentenced a man to the maximum term of 20 years in jail for committing and orchestrating the mass rapes of his now-former wife Gisele Pelicot with dozens of strangers he recruited online.
Dominique Pelicot, who had already confessed to the crimes, was earlier found guilty by the court in the city of Avignon after an over-three-month trial that shocked the West European nation and turned his ex-wife into a feminist hero.
