Dominique Pelicot will not appeal 20-year sentence in French mass rape trial
ABCWARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse The Frenchman convicted of drugging and raping his then wife and soliciting dozens of men to do the same for more than a decade will not appeal his verdict, his lawyer has said. WARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse Gisèle Pelicot was hailed as a feminist hero for her courage and dignity throughout the three-month trial that shocked the world. "Dominique Pelicot has taken the decision to not appeal the verdict," Mr Pelicot's lawyer Beatrice Zavarro told AFP. An appeal "would force Gisele to undergo a new ordeal, new confrontations, which Dominique Pelicot refuses" to do, she said. Ms Pelicot said she "never regretted" her decision to make the trial public and that she wanted to turn the tables on the shame associated with rape from victims to perpetrators.