Ex-surgeon tells French court he used status to sexually abuse children

found 2025 › Mar › 04 (Tue) @ 19:17 UTC

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Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of attacking 299 patients at a dozen hospitals between 1989 and 2014

A former French surgeon on trial for the sexual abuse of hundreds of patients has told the court he us…

Former surgeon stands trial: What is the story behind France's largest child sexual abuse case?

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 12:56 UTC

Months after the Gisèle Pelicot case rocked France, Le Scouarnec is accused of raping or abusing 299 victims, most of them young children at the time.

Paedophile surgeon who 'raped 300 children including some under anaesthetic' admits he has committed 'hideous acts' - in France's biggest ever child-sex trial

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 07:15 UTC

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Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, is charged with assaulting or raping 299 boys and girls over three decades.

French surgeon accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children, says he did ‘hideous things’

found 2025 › Feb › 24 (Mon) @ 18:42 UTC

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Joël Le Scouarnec tells court on first day of trial he will take responsibility for his actions

A 74-year-old surgeon accused of abusing 299 people, most of them children, while they were anaesthetise…

The trial of 'France's biggest paedophile offender' opens in Vannes, Brittany, on Monday

found 2025 › Feb › 23 (Sun) @ 17:32 UTC

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Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of aggravated rape and sexual assault of 299 victims, almost all minors, between 1989 and 2014. This "extraordinary" trial took two years to prepare.

‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients

found 2025 › Feb › 22 (Sat) @ 22:33 UTC

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Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him

When two gendarmes knocked on her door in 2019, Marie had no idea…

‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children

found 2025 › Feb › 22 (Sat) @ 17:07 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him

When two gendarmes knocked on her door in 2019, Marie had no idea…

France braces for trial of surgeon accused of sexually abusing hundreds of children

found 2025 › Feb › 10 (Mon) @ 06:26 UTC

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Joël Le Scouarnec has been charged with the rape or sexual assault of 299 patients from 1989 to 2014

The biggest child abuse trial in French history will open in Brittany this month amid anger that a …

Paedophile surgeon who kept child-sized sex dolls is to face justice in France's biggest-ever child sex trial accused of abusing HUNDREDS of young patients - often while they were under anaesthetic

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Joel Le Scouarnec, 73, is accused of assaulting or raping 299 children, mainly his hospital patients, between 1989 and 2014. He faces more than 100 rape charges and 150 charges of sexual assault.

France prepares for trial of surgeon accused of abusing anaesthetised children

found 2025 › Feb › 03 (Mon) @ 08:28 UTC

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Joel Le Scouarnec is accused of having abused hundreds of young patients, often while they were under anaesthetic.