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

The numbers involved in France’s largest child abuse trial are staggering: 299 alleged victims, sexually abused in 10 hospitals and clinics over 25 years – all by one doctor, prosecutors say.

Starting today (), France will see its largest-ever child sex abuse trial; a French surgeon, Dr Joel Le Scouarnec, will be tried for allegedly sexually assaulting 299 children over the past 25 years.

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.

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

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.

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