A woman in the trial for the murder of the torturer-father and then her husband – He raped her from the age of 12!
The trial of Valerie Bako has begun, who narrated the hell she experienced in a book entitled “Everyone knew”
From the age of 12 she was raped by her father, who later became her husband, beat her, forced her to be extradited: A new symbol of victims of domestic violence in France , a 40-year-old woman is on trial today for killing her alleged torturer .
In the court of Saone-et-Loire , in central France, began the trial of Valery Baku , often quoted by French media as the “new Jacqueline Sovaz”, a 60 year old who was convicted in 2014 for killing her husband after decades of domestic violence, but was released in 2016 after a presidential pardon.
Nearly 600,000 people have signed a petition demanding the acquittal of Valerie Bako, who recounted the hell she experienced in the book “Tout le monde savait” (Everyone knew).
On March 13, 2016, Valerie Bako, then 35, killed Daniel Polet , 61. With the help of her two children, she buried the body in a forest, but was later charged and then arrested in October 2017. She immediately confessed, justifying her act after a 25-year martyrdom.
At the age of 12, Daniel Polet raped her. He was then her mother’s lover. He was convicted and imprisoned in 1995, but the man was allowed to return to his family home after his release in 1997. And “it all started as before”, says Valeri Bako, in her book that was released last month. When she became pregnant at the age of 17, her mother turned against her and Valerie Bako thought that her salvation would be to live with “Danny”.
“Fear all the time”
But the man shows more violent behavior: at Christmas he hits Valerie with a hammer,because the garland with the lights he had bought does not work. Another day, he strangles her until she faints while she is pregnant, the accused describes.
And along with this daily physical violence, “ordinary”, according to Baku, is added the prostitution imposed on her by her husband, even giving her “instructions” through a headset to better satisfy the client. “I was afraid. “All the time,” he writes. “I wanted to leave a thousand times,” assures Valeri Bako. But she fears that she will not be able to escape her violent husband, who often threatens her with a pistol.
What will lead her to the crime is the fear that Carlin’s daughter will suffer the same fate. At 14, she confesses to her mother that her father asked her “how was she sexual”.
On March 13, 2016, she took the gun that her husband was keeping in his car and shot him in the neck. He can not claim that he was in a legal defense: the victim was behind the wheel, with his back to her.
However, the defendant’s lawyers speak of “extreme violence she suffered for almost 25 years and her fear of seeing the same thing happen to the detriment of her own daughter.”
The trial is expected to last until Friday.
