India, May 26 -- A French bank manager has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of torturing and raping his former partner over a seven-year period.

According to news agency AFP, Guillaume Bucci, 51, was found guilty of subjecting Laetitia R, a 42-year-old mother of 4, to years of violent abuse between 2015 and 2022. The survivor told the court that she "stopped counting at 487 men" whom she was allegedly forced to sleep with at Bucci's direction.

The court heard that Bucci forced Laetitia to endure degrading acts, including drinking his urine, licking public toilets and having sex with strangers, truck drivers and men he allegedly recruited online and through his personal circle, as per a report by the New York Po...