Dominique Pelicot admitted to drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her over nearly a decade, begging for his family's forgiveness, as he told a French court on Tuesday: "I am a rapist.

Dominique Pélicot, 71, is the man at the center of a mass rape trial in France. He admitted to drugging his wife and recruiting 83 men to rape her almost 100 times

I maintain that, along with the other men here, I am a rapist,″ Dominique Pélicot told the court. “They knew everything. They can’t say otherwise.”