A former doctor who's admitted sexually assaulting hundreds of children is facing likely new charges for abusing his own granddaughter.

Brittany, that the harm he has caused is “beyond repair.” “I have committed despicable acts,” Le Scouarnec told the court Monday, Reuters reported, in a trial many hoped would mark a turning point in France’s reckoning with child abuse.

The trial of Joël Le Scouarnec, who is charged with the rape and sexual assault of 299 people in France over decades, is set to begin. The alleged victims’ average age was 11.

France's largest-ever child sexual abuse case opens Monday in Brittany, with Joel Le Scouarnec accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients in various hospitals over

Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of aggravated rape and sexual assault of 299 victims, almost all minors, between 1989 and 2014. This "extraordinary" trial took two years to prepare. #EuropeNews

A former surgeon is set to stand trial in France on Monday for the alleged ... of victims during a four-month trial in Vannes, Brittany. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, on top ...

Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec went on trial Monday for raping or abusing 299 victims, mostly child patients, in a case spanning over three decades.

A former surgeon accused of abusing 299 young patients has accepted responsibility for the "vast majority" of the charges he faces as his trial begins, per reports.