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Women raped by their partners while sedated meet Gisèle Pelicot · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: We meet in another.
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  Speaker 2: Amanda and Zoe learned of each other's existence three months
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  Speaker 2: ago after they revealed in a CNN investigation how they
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  Speaker 2: were sexually abused by their partners while sedated. Today, they're
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  Speaker 2: back together for a moment they've long been waiting for
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  Speaker 2: a chance to meet the woman who's more than just
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  Speaker 2: a fellow survivor accomplished them.
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  Speaker 1: Voila, I shall render.
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  Speaker 2: Trazelle Pellico paved the way in waving her anonymity when
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  Speaker 2: her husband stood trial and was convicted of drugging and
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  Speaker 2: raping her repeatedly and inviting over a dozen men to
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  Speaker 2: do the same. When I first told her about Zoe
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  Speaker 2: and Amanda, Chazelle was moved. They're all part of a sorority.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't want to belong to, their stories marked by
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  Speaker 2: harrowing parallels, including being filmed during their abuse, But now
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  Speaker 2: they've found comfort in each other.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to say that you gave me the
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  Speaker 3: strength personally to go through my police investigation. You were
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  Speaker 3: the first person that I knew who'd experienced the same
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  Speaker 3: and I felt for the first time not alone, and
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  Speaker 3: I said, I will do the same, Mirchiselle. I will
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  Speaker 3: speak out.
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  Speaker 2: His former husband is now serving eleven years in jail
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  Speaker 2: after he confessed to crushing sleeping pills into her tea
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  Speaker 2: and filming while raping her. According to authorities, she suspects
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  Speaker 2: the abuse may have been going on for a decade,
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  Speaker 2: but like Gazanne and Amanda, she feared the devastating impact
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  Speaker 2: the revelation would have on her children. What did Giselle
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  Speaker 2: coming out so publicly mean for you?
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  Speaker 5: I already had my case, it had been done, and
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  Speaker 5: I received such negative press from my community, my town,
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  Speaker 5: which made me hide because me and the children were bullied. However,
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  Speaker 5: I thought a world where someone could come forward. There
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  Speaker 5: was hope now that someone could come forward and wave
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  Speaker 5: their anonymity, because when it happened to me, I did
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  Speaker 5: not receive the same encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: Giselle's case exposed deep gaps and understanding of this crime,
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  Speaker 2: including missed medical signs when she sought help, believing she
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  Speaker 2: may have had Alzheimer's. Amanda says she's faced similar ignorance,
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  Speaker 2: but from police. She believes she was abused over a
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  Speaker 2: five year period by her former partner. She says she
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  Speaker 2: would often fall asleep without remembering how and would wake
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  Speaker 2: up to bruises on her body and in different clothes,
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  Speaker 2: without any memory as to why. Her partner was charged
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  Speaker 2: with rape and sexual assault but took his own life
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  Speaker 2: before the case made it to trial.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I was an inconvenience with the police.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't feel listened to, heard that there was no
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  Speaker 3: urgency whatsoever, and to be left with trauma for years
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  Speaker 3: waiting for charges. And of course I didn't get to court.
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  Speaker 3: So the police have got a lot to do to
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  Speaker 3: prioritize these cases.
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  Speaker 4: The PASSI I liked directors as you see.
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  Speaker 2: Since the documentary, Zoe and Amanda say they've been contacted
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  Speaker 2: by women in fifty five countries who say they too
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  Speaker 2: have experienced drug facilitated sexual assault. They've launched a campaign
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  Speaker 2: called and I Check, named after a hashtag used on
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  Speaker 2: porn sites to check if women are asleep before they're abused,
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  Speaker 2: and both women were invited to speak in Parliament after
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  Speaker 2: a special session was convened in response to CNN's investigation,
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  Speaker 2: with all makers now questioning whether existing laws are a
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  Speaker 2: bit for purpose.
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  Speaker 6: What would you tell survivors who are watching right now
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  Speaker 6: to speak up and to speak out if they feel
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  Speaker 6: brave enough.
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  Speaker 5: To go the authorities. It's difficult because some women don't
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  Speaker 5: get the support from the police to find the support
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  Speaker 5: network where they're not being judged, because there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of work to be done in that area.
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  Speaker 4: Still, it's and that's so first song with Donkeys from.
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  Speaker 6: The first time that you were meeting survivors of drug
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  Speaker 6: facilitated sexual assault.
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  Speaker 7: Is Is there anything else you would like to say
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  Speaker 7: to jall.
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  Speaker 3: Mm, I want to say it's an up salute, honor
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  Speaker 3: and pleasure too to speak to you. It's a dream
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  Speaker 3: for me, someone who actually got me through the worst
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  Speaker 3: time of my life. And now I'm we're actually having
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  Speaker 3: a conversation, so thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Have you just see on my propersions, your position, your
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  Speaker 4: plenid coast.
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  Speaker 1: Mad book with this word yes, welcome down.