In France today, a panel of judges found dozens of men guilty of raping a woman whose then husband

had drugged her unconscious over the course of a decade.

Ali Rogan has more, and a warning the following conversation is graphic in its language.

Giselle Pellicote waived her right to a private trial in solidarity with other victims

of sexual assault, whom she says go unrecognized.

By opening the doors to this trial, I wished for society to join in the debates that were

held.

I never regretted this decision.

For three months, she has had to sit through videos of her abuse in court,

taken by her then-husband, while dozens of men he recruited online assaulted her.

A majority of these men said they didn't know it was rape,

but all of them were found guilty in one way or another. The scale and brutality of Pellico's abuse prompted thousands to take to the streets

and has sparked a nationwide conversation about consent.

Catherine Porter has been covering the trial for the New York Times.

Catherine, thank you so much for joining us.

What does this verdict mean for the country and for Madame Pellico?

Well, for Madame Pellico, it was the verdict she was looking for. But more than the verdict, she wanted to spark a large conversation in France about rape, the prevalence of rape, how the country treats rape victims.

And by that measure, she's clearly succeeded. Her trial and her decision

to make it public and force the country to look rape in the face by watching these videos

of her comatose body being probed and penetrated by strangers has really started a national

conversation about relationships between men and women, about consent, about rape culture.

These type of conversations that were much more common in North America and after Me Too,

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