Joël Le Scouarnec’s sons deny being abused by his father, but one of the surgeon’s sons was sexually abused by his grandfather, the father of the accused of hundreds of pedophilia crimes committed on patients
The second day of Joël Le Scouarnec’s trial was dedicated to the former surgeon’s family with the defendant’s children guaranteeing in court that they were not sexually abused by their father, but one of them was a grandfather victim – and the doctor knew.
“There were views, touches, oral sex. It must have happened ten times between 5 and 9-10 years, in my grandfather’s workshop, in a bedroom, in the kitchen, while I saw TV, in his lap … I have the images on my head and I will have all my life ”Said the eldest son of the French surgeon accused of abusing hundreds of children, many of them anesthetized after being operated.
According to, Joël Le Scouarnec had already denied, in a first trial by 2020 for sexual abuse of four minors, having carried out any sexual act with his children. “It never crossed my mind,” he said at the time. However, his father’s sexual aggression against his eldest son was his knowledge, having revealed him to his lawyer when the first trial, according to.
Despite the context of intrafamily sexual violence – Joël Le Scouarnec sexually abused two of his nieces – two of the doctor’s sons assured that family life was “normal” and “common” and had a “completely happy childhood.” “I was not missing anything. I have great memories of my father. My mother was more present, because she took care of 100% of our education, but I was also close to my father, I had a very classic father-child bond with him, ”said the youngest, 38, to make his father. He is “a very intelligent person, interested in many things” and with whom was “very pleasant” daily life. Still, he cut relations with his father in 2017, when a six -year -old child, the surgeon’s neighbor, told his mother that he had shown himself from the other side of the seal. The mother of the child reported the case to the authorities, who detained the doctor on suspicion of sexual abuse of minors.
“Today I live with daily anxiety. And I tell myself, ‘If my father has managed to do it, a neighbor, a friend can do it too.’ We are completely paranoid. Sometimes I feel like I’m in another world. This put us in another planet, ”said the doctor’s youngest son.
The 42-year-old older brother says he can’t hate the father, because he has “nothing to rebuke him as a father.” “My father remains my father. But what I can’t forgive is what he did, having suffered it myself, “he said.
Joël Le Scouarnec, retired and currently 74, worked in public and private hospitals in Brittany and western France, often operating children with appendicitis. Le scoucouarnec has been detained since 2017 at the Lorient-PeloEmeur Penitentiary Center. In October 2020 was announced the prosecution that shocked France and that only now reaches court: the former slander was suspected of abusing 312 victims between 1986 and 2014. In the accusation order, issued on September 27 last year , the instructional judge states, most of them minors, between 1989 and 2014.
