The French excircuster Joël Le Scouarnec, accused of crimes of sexual violence against about 300 patients, mostly minors, in up to a dozen hospitals, has recognized its guilt This Thursday before a judge in a criminal court in Morbihan, in western France.
During a session of the trial behind closed doors, the surgeon’s lawyer has asked him if he admitted the facts that are charged to him, to what Scouarnec, about 75, has responded with a blunt “Yeah“Later, the lawyer has assured that his client “Accept the legal consequences” that can lead to the conviction.
This is the first time that Le Scouarnec declares himself guilty of all the crimes that are imputed to him, since so far he had recognized “heinous acts” and had admitted their responsibility in “The vast majority” of the accusations They were charged, according to information collected by Franceinfo.
Le Scouarnec has been tried for about four weeks by a court in the city of Vannes by possible crimes committed between 1989 and 2014 In hospitals in western France against about 300 patients, most of them of an average age of eleven years at the time of the events.
The authorities located the alleged victims thanks to the fact that Le Scouarnec collected part of the facts and left records in newspapers, which were seized during a record at his home in 2017 after a six -year -old neighbor accused him of rape.
In the writings the names of the victims, their ages and even the direction of their homes are detailed, as well as the method of violence used against them, often low The appearance of being part of a medical treatment. Many victims would have suffered traumatic or partial erase of memory.
Le Scouarnec is being judged poR 111 violations and 189 sexual aggressionsaggravated by the fact of having abused his authority as a doctor. The trial is expected to develop even more over three more months, and the surgeon faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
The former surgeon was already sentenced in 2020 to 15 years in prison for crimes of Violation and sexual assault Against four minors, including two nieces.
