Explainer: How a French Rape Trial Verdict Has Spurred a National Reckoning on Consent Laws
“It’s not for us to have shame – it’s for them…I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don’t want them to be ashamed any longer.” Gisele Pelicot’s words from her testimony during the months-long mass rape trial were vindicated by the conviction and sentencing [...]