French surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of children is jailed

A erstwhile surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of children successful France has been sentenced to 20 years successful prison.

Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been connected proceedings successful 1 of France's largest-ever kid enactment maltreatment cases.

Most of the victims were abused portion nether anaesthesia oregon waking up from operations, with an astir adjacent fig of boys and girls.

He was accused of 300 abstracted offences - 111 rapes and 189 intersexual assaults - successful much than a twelve hospitals betwixt 1989 and 2014.

Prosecutors described Le Scouarnec arsenic "a devil successful a achromatic coat" and requested the maximum condemnation of 20 years successful prison.

He was already serving a 15-year situation condemnation for a 2020 condemnation for the rape and intersexual battle of 4 children, including 2 nieces.

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Le Scouarnec kept elaborate records of the maltreatment helium inflicted successful notebooks and diaries.

He was ne'er investigated during his career, contempt being sentenced successful 2005 for owning kid intersexual maltreatment images.

He was lone apprehended aft helium retired successful 2017 erstwhile his six-year-old neighbour told her parent helium had sexually abused her portion helium was playing successful the plot of her home.

When the constabulary searched Le Scouarnec's location they recovered 300,000 indecent photos and videos of children, 70 child-sized dolls and hundreds of notebooks and diaries detailing his acts of abuse.

Le Scouarnec is already serving a jailhouse sentence, having been recovered blameworthy successful 2020 of raping and sexually assaulting 4 young girls.

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