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When police in western France searched surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec’s home after he raped his 6-year-old neighbour in 2017, they found a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography.

Less than two months after more than 50 men were found guilty of the rape and abuse of Gisele Pelicot, at least six of them are already free.

Gisèle Pelicot – a woman who has became a feminist symbol of the fight against sexual violence in France – has finally learnt the fate of her ex-husband and 50 other men after they were found guilty raping her.

Dominique Pélicot, 71, is on trial alongside 50 other men, all of them accused of the ‘aggravated rape’ of his wife Gisèle Péllicot, also 71 - and today admitted drugging her and allowing multiple strangers to attack her