Joe Le Scouarc
Joël Le Scouarnec, a former 74 -year -old French surgeon, who is described as the largest pedophile in France, has violated 229 children for over two decades. He was sentenced this Wednesday to the maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Joe Le Scouarc It was, this Wednesday, considered guilty of having Violated and sexually abused of 299 children.
The former surgeon is already serving a 15-year prison sentence, for a 2020 conviction for the violation and sexual aggression of four children, two of whom their nieces.
This new trial, in Brittany, western France, began in February and exposed a pattern of abuse between 1989 and 2014.
Most victims whose average age was 11 yearsthey were sick unconscious or sedated in hospitals at the time of aggression.
Of the victims, 158 were boys and 141 girls.
Authorities were very mild
During the trial, defense groups accused the health authorities of inaction, after being notified, as early as 2005of the condemnation of Le scouarnec for possession of child pornography.
Was convicted of possession and import of sexual abuse material of children and sentenced to four months of sentence.
However, No measures were taken to suspend your medical license or limit your contact with children.
Le scouarnec was hired as a doctor by a hospital in 2006.
The surgeon continued to abuse children in hospitals until its detention in 2017.
“Should Joël Le Scouarnec have been the only one in the defendants?”asked the prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger during the final allegations.
“It could have done more, things could have been done differently, even within the notorious layers of French bureaucracy, where responsibilities are so often passed from one authority to another until eventually this responsibility is lost and reaches innocent lives,” Kellenberger said.
I documented meticulously you seus crimes
Le scouarnec confessed all sexual abuse Alleged by the 299 civil parts, as well as other aggressions they have already prescribed.
In a shocking confession during the trial, also recognized that he had sexually abused his Net – A statement made in front of the child’s parents, visibly disturbed.
Not all victims initially realized that they had been victims of sexual abuse. Some were contacted by investigators after their names appear in Le Scouarnec’s diaries, in which this I documented meticulously you seus crimes.
Others just realized that they had been hospitalized at the time after consulting medical records. Two of his victims suicide a few years before the trial.
The former gastroenterologist surgeon took advantage of the moments when the children were alone in the hospital rooms. Your method consisted of disguise sexual abuse as clinical caretargeting small patients, which would hardly remember these episodes.
The notebooks in which describes abuse in graphic language became central for the case of the accusation.
“White Battle Demon”
Despite the severity of the accusations, Le Scouarnec remained calm and quiet throughout the trial.
“I didn’t see them as people, they [as crianças] They were the subject of my fantasies. Over the course of the trial, I began to see them as individuals, with emotions, anger, suffering and anguish, ”the defendant told the court, confessing that his First act of sexual abuse occurred in 1985, when it violated the 5 -year -old.
A third trial is foreseen in the coming years, following the admission of new crimes during this trial, among which more sexual abuse involving his granddaughter.
