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

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.

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.”