The Men Next Door / Drugs, Coercive Control & Cases Mirroring the Pelicot Trial / Rodney Johnston
3/25/202632 min
When Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity in 2024 and exposed her husband's crimes to the world, many assumed what happened in Mazan was an isolated case. It wasn’t. A 66-year-old carer from Norfolk subjected a woman to almost three decades of sexual exploitation. He operated in plain sight, using digital networks to recruit men, threatened his victim into silence, and recorded everything…
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Speaker 31:09
[keyboard clacking] Reggie, I just sold my car online.
Speaker 41:12
Let's go, Grandpa. Wait, you did?
Speaker 31:15
Yep, on Carvana. Just put in the license plate, answered a few questions, got an offer in minutes. Easier than setting up that new digital picture frame.
Speaker 41:23
You don't say.
Speaker 31:24
Yeah, they're even picking it up tomorrow. Talk about fast.
Speaker 41:27
Wow, way to go. So about that