French woman who killed abusive husband to hear verdict
Al Jazeera
Valerie Bacot claims her husband, her former stepfather, first raped her when she was 12 and forced her into prostitution.
A mother of four children is on trial in France for killing her husband after decades of sexual, physical and psychological abuse starting when she was an adolescent. The case has drawn broad attention and support for her, amid a national reckoning with long-held taboos around domestic abuse. Valerie Bacot, 40, has admitted shooting Daniel Polette dead in 2016. She risks life in prison for murder.
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