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299 alleged victims, sexually abused in 10 hospitals and clinics over 25 years – all because of a single doctor.
It started in Morbihan, Brittany, the trial of the retired gastrointestinal surgeon Joel le scouarc, accused of having sexually abused for almost 3 decades of smaller patients. The victims will be 299, and were abused in 10 different hospitals and clinics.
The 74 -year -old surgeon was already serving a 15 -year sentence for violation and abuse of children. The doctor will have continued to work in public and private institutions even after being convicted of possession of children’s abuse images in 2005, according to.
He was also convicted in 2020 for abusing his nieces and a neighbor at the door of a hospital.
This is the second judgment in a space of weeks related to sexual abuse that shakes France, after the drug added and abused for several years by their husband, who has become a symbol of victims of sexual abuse all over the world.
Searches in Scoucouarnec’s office revealed the diaries and about 70 dollswith whom the surgeon will have “shared his daily life” before being arrested: He gave them names, wore them, and used them for their sexual pleasure.
“There was no empathy, any emotion, any feeling about a small human being, which he literally considered as a sexual object,” says Francesca Satta, lawyer of the prosecution.
In his diary, he describes the abuses he practiced, admitting that he concealed them with alleged medical examinations. He even addressed the victims by the name when he wrote.
“Little Marie, you were again in your room,” begins a report. He said goodbye after descriptions of sexual acts with children with “I love you.”
“We have victims in real and genuine suffering. We have anoretic, depressed people who cannot have children who cannot have sex with their partner, ”says the lawyer. Among their represented are two families of men who will have been abused by Le Scouarnec and who committed suicide years later.
“I told him that he was dangerous and that his place was not in the hospital. I asked him to be dismissed, ”a doctor who performed on Scoucouarnec told psychiatric examinations told CNN.
After a long silence, his head in his hands, Le Scoucouarnec replied, “You can’t force me.”
