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A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 individuals, principally kids
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A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 individuals, principally kids

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A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 individuals, principally kids

Activists maintain posters throughout a girls’s rights demonstration, Dec. 14, 2024 in Avignon, southern France, the place the trial of dozens of males accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot whereas she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband is happening.

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VANNES, France — A former surgeon is about to face trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them kids who had been his sufferers, in what investigators and his personal notebooks describe as a sample of violence spanning over three a long time.

Joël Le Scouarnec, now 74, will face a whole bunch of victims throughout a four-month trial in Vannes, Brittany. He faces as much as 20 years in jail if convicted, on prime of 15 years he has been serving after being discovered responsible in 2020 of rape and sexual assault of kids.

He doesn’t deny the allegations, although says he does not bear in mind every little thing. Some survivors haven’t any reminiscence of the assaults, having been unconscious on the time.

Le Scouarnec’s trial comes as activists are pushing to raise taboos which have lengthy surrounded sexual abuse in France. Probably the most outstanding case was that of Gisèle Pélicot, who was drugged and raped by her now ex-husband and dozens of different males who had been convicted and sentenced in December to jail phrases starting from three to twenty years.

Youngster safety and ladies’s rights teams and medical neighborhood associations have referred to as for a rally on Monday in entrance of the courthouse the place Le Scouarnec can be tried.

The case started in 2017, when a 6-year-old neighbor mentioned Le Scouarnec had touched her over the fence separating their properties.

A subsequent search of his house uncovered greater than 300,000 pictures, 650 pedophilic, zoophilic and scatological video recordsdata, in addition to notebooks the place he described himself as a pedophile and detailed his actions, in line with investigation paperwork.

In 2020, Le Scouarnec was convicted of rape and sexual assault of 4 kids, together with two nieces, and was sentenced to fifteen years in jail.

He had admitted to youngster abuse relationship to 1985-1986, however some instances couldn’t be prosecuted as a result of the statute of limitations had expired.

The Vannes trial will look at alleged rapes and different abuses dedicated between 1989 and 2014 in opposition to 158 males and 141 girls who had been aged 11 on common on the time.

The physician sexually abused each girls and boys once they had been alone of their hospital rooms, in line with investigation paperwork.

“I didn’t really remember the operation. I remembered the post-operation, a surgeon who was quite mean,” one of many victims, Amélie Lévêque, recalled of her time within the hospital when she was 9 years previous in 1991. “I cried a lot.”

Years later, she described feeling overwhelmed when she discovered that her title appeared in Le Scouarnec’s notebooks.

“That was the beginning of the answers to a lifetime of questions, and then it was the beginning of the descent into hell,” she informed public broadcaster France 3. “I felt like I had lost control of everything. I wasn’t crazy, but now I had to face the truth of what had happened.”

“I fell into a deep depression. … My family tried to help, but I felt completely alone.”

The Related Press doesn’t title individuals who say they had been sexually assaulted until they consent to being recognized or determine to inform their tales publicly.

Le Scouarnec’s lawyer, Thibaut Kurzawa, informed Sud-Ouest newspaper his shopper will “answer the judges’ questions” as he determined “to face up to reality.”

Victoria Burke stands at a podium while discussing proposed protections for victims of assault and abuse during a news conference in California.

Le Scouarnec had already been convicted in 2005 for possessing and importing youngster sexual abuse materials and sentenced to 4 months of suspended jail time. Regardless of that conviction, he was appointed as a hospital practitioner the next 12 months.

Some youngster safety teams joined the proceedings as civil events, saying they hope to toughen the authorized framework to stop such abuse.

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