More than half a million French people signed a petition demanding that Valerie Bako be acquitted, who shot and killed her pimp stepfather, who had beaten and abused a woman for more than 20 years.
The girl was only 12 when she was raped by Daniel Paulette, a new friend of her mother, who suffered from alcoholism.
The man, denounced by Valerie's sisters (offended that his stepfather gave gifts only to her), was sent to prison for incest and molestation of a minor, but less than three years later he went out and started the old one. As a result, at the age of 17, Bako became pregnant, and her mother kicked her out with her unfaithful boyfriend into the street.
Valerie began to live with her former stepfather in a rented house and soon one after another gave birth to him four children. She even tried to work – the head of the administration of the village in which the couple settled, took her as a freelance cleaner to the mayor's office. The woman worked for exactly a week, and then her roommate came there and said that a working woman is worse than a prostitute. This was the end of the honest work for Valerie.
But the work that her common-law husband chose for her did not end – in an equipped minivan, Valerie provided sexual services to clients whom Paulette was looking for on the highway. She worked, and he gave her instructions through the earpiece, filmed what was happening, and then poured everything into the Network.
For the slightest disobedience, the husband brutally beat the woman, although, according to her, he tried not to mutilate, so as not to spoil the goods.
Valerie shot Paulette in the head in March 2016. Her sons and a friend of her daughter helped her to hide her body. However, after a year and a half, the murder case was launched, the woman confessed and was released on recognizance not to leave.
According to her own statement, the reason for the murder was not a mutilated life, not constant beatings and forced sex with strangers, but the fact that Paulette began to stare at their 15-year-old daughter.
“She killed, but she is not a killer. She was pushed to this violence, which she suffered for 25 years, and the fear that her daughter will be next … Such women are defenseless. The judicial system is too slow and lenient towards criminals, ”attorney Janine Bonagunta told reporters.
Valerie Bako is expected to be sentenced next week.
