Former 74-year-old surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec confessed to the sexual abuse of hundreds of patients on Thursday, most of whom were not even 15 years old. This is reported to TASR, according to the AFP report.
“I have an obligation to tell the truth,” LE Scouarnec said during a non -public hearing. When asked if in one of the seized notes, the “names of potential victims of his actions” replied that yes.
“I asked him whether he agreed that 299 accusations were crimes, and he answered yes,” Surgeon’s lawyer Maxime Tessier said. So far, the suspect confessed only to some isolated rape cases and refused the amount of charges.
“Confession is a key step that allows the victims to continue their lives, and it is good that it has come at this stage of the process,” She said Frederique Giffard, who represents several victims. “I think that after hearing the testimony of civil participants in the last 10 days he finally understood that will not be able to credibly insist on his attitude and continue to deny facts“added.
Since the beginning of March, Le Scouarnec has been judging in the West French city of Vannes in one of the greatest sex scandals. The Surgeon Prosecutor’s Office accused the rape of patients between 1989 and 2014, who were mostly under the influence of anesthetics.
The surgeon is already serving a 2020 sentence for the rape of four children. During his medical practice, his actions have never been investigated, despite the 2005 case, when the doctor caught photographs of sexual violence against children.
