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

A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anesthetic, told the opening of his trial in western France on Monday that he had committed "despicable" acts.

Gisèle Pelicot won global praise for her dignity as her husband Dominique Pelicot was tried and convicted of raping her while inviting dozens of men to do the same

Joël Le Scouarnec is charged with raping or sexually assaulting 299 people, mostly his young patients. His family’s testimony suggested a culture of silence around sexual abuse by him and others.

The trial, expected to last four months, has already captured national attention, just weeks after a horrifying, monthslong mass rape and drugging trial rocked France. Victim Gisele Pelicot became a potent symbol in the struggle to shift the shame around ...

The high-profile Pelicot trial "prompted deep soul searching" across France and its chequered record on attitudes to sexual abuse, said Reuters. And there is disbelief at how retired surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec was able to abuse children freely for so long.

French prosecutors have requested that double Olympic swimming champion Yannick Agnel appear before a criminal court for alleged rape and sexual assault of a minor, judicial sources said Friday.

It has shocked France, coming on the heels of another mass rape trial involving a man who drugged his wife and brought strangers into their home to assault her for years. The public prosecutor ...

Marie, 35, that they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he thought it was a prank. It wasn't.

Gerard Depardieu, who is already indicted on rape and sexual assault charges, is now being investigated for aggravated fiscal fraud in France.