French man accused of drugging his wife and inviting men to rape her

so you appear to have been misled by the OP's fantasy normal men narrative.

None of the people on that website were innocents. It was a site designed for criminality. Not bondage or roleplay. They knew what they wanted and what they were doing. Maybe she just wasn't their type or didn't want to be recorded. Unless one of the suspects has a severe mental disability they knew it wasn't a dating site ffs.

According to wikipedia it was often likened to a dating site, and it links to this website where they said people used it to chat and make new friends but they warned of the dangers. If you read the comments it seems some people said they were just chatting also.

https://www.journalduweb.org/coco-chat-cocoland-pourquoi-faut-il-etre-prudent-sur-ce-site/

It apparently had at least 850,000 users in France alone! Were all of them there for criminality? I suppose it's possible if you want to add in minor things like buying and selling weed I suppose.

The article you linked to paints a very different story of the place.

The fact that the site is accessible to everyone, including minors, makes the Coco chat a veritable hunting ground for sex offenders and pedophiles.

As recently as 2019, Ouest France reported that a Brest man had managed to download 3,000 images and 160 videos of children from the Cocoland chat site between 2013 and 2016. To do this, he connected to the site daily, even going so far as to stay there 8 hours a day when he was not working. Apprehended by the Brest police station, he admitted the facts in court and the prosecutor requested an 18-month suspended prison sentence, a work obligation, care and his registration in the sex offender register.

But this is not the only case surrounding the Cocoland site . In 2014, according to a case reported by Le Parisien , two pedophiles regularly chat with minors on the online chat. A gendarmerie cyber patrol pretended to be a 13-year-old girl on the site. During the exchanges, the pedophiles quickly told the little girl that they wanted photos of her, that they wanted to teach her fellatio and even teach her how to make love. The two were sentenced to 3 years and 18 months in prison respectively by the Compiègne criminal court for corruption of minors.

Another case. This time in Troyes and reported by l'Est Eclair , involving underage girls at the time of the events who forced two fragile and vulnerable 16-year-old girls into prostitution. They all lived in a shelter in the Troyes area, but the two pimps were responsible for writing ads and making appointments, again on the Cocoland website.

According to Ouest France , it also happened in Cholet that two high school students trapped adults by posting false ads for paid sexual encounters on Coco tchat and then arrived to rob the "victims" of their money.

Even more alarming (information relayed by BFM ), the tragic death of a man. Four teenagers had set an ambush for him under the pretext of a meeting, only to end up beating him with fatal violence...

These stories are far from isolated and paint a dark picture… They remind us (and it is imperative that we never forget this) that the internet can be a dangerous place when arranging meetings with strangers.

And the name of the specific chatroom the perps used in the case was called “a son insu,” which means “without their knowledge.”

We don't need to speculate it about it here though, the investigators who shut down the site also almost surely have access to all the records they need for the trials, it is they who will sus out if any of the accused have exculpable defenses against their criminal charges.

Sorry that you lost your loved one 💐

Yes what happened to her was the most unimaginable betrayal, it's hard to imagine anything even being able to take the edge of the pain and suffering she went through. So many lives ruined here. The daughters experience is also sickening, it would be hard to imagine how you could trust a man again after her own father drugged her and took pictures of her. And the sons/brothers too. It's hard to imagine them being able to ever get past these horrors.

we are unfortunately living in an age of peak deviancy, the woke anything goes attitude that now pervades society allows justification and encourages these awful behaviours

they self justify

The daughter didn't say that though - that's a remark from the journalist. I'd be surprised if it is correct.

It is a matter of perspctive. From the victim's perspective it is unimaginable in its enormity.

From a population wide perspective it is tiny.

From a poulation of near 70,000,000 within a self selected sub group within that population who had the disposition to contact similar people on an online forum the main protagonist found, on average, seven people every year over approx. ten years. It is a tiny fraction of one percent. Another poster calculated 0.0013%.

How does society deal with such a tiny, unrepresentative section of the population?

I think Cassidy is an attention seeking media daaasrling.

math's doesn't seem to be your friend. The opening poster said 50+ men, which to them is 'a heck of a lot of men'. They also implied they were local, which isn't the case it seems. The website was one where sick minded individuals could connect, also like 4chan. That does not mean that everyone that used the website was a rapist. You understand this, or again try find someone to help you understand. You quoted 850000 users, how many of those were female ? You said 850000 is 'a heck of a lot of men'

waste of time engaging with the simple minded