Another case of abuse impacts France: a surgeon slept and raped 300 children

Another case of violations and pedophilia France shocks after accusations against an important surgeonof raping his patients after sedating them, where the majority of the victims were children.

Because it took a long time to compile the different cases and testimonies of the victims, only the next year will be carried out central trial for mass rapes and will finally be brought before a judicial court.

The person responsible for committing the shocking events is Joël Le Scouarneca prestigious surgeon who lived almost 30 years in total impunity, because the victims had never found out that they had been raped since they were anesthetized.

When did the abuse and rape begin?

Between 1989 and 2014the abuses committed by the surgeon were recorded until one of his victims reported him, and he has been detained since 2017 due to the revelation of four other cases of abuse. However, the central judgment due to massive rapes it will only be next year.

Le Scouarnec, by 73 yearsworked throughout his life in different hospitals in Lorient, Vannes and Quimperleall in the northwest of France. This temporary position allowed him to remain in contact with hundreds of victims and he took advantage of his profession as a doctor to rape or sexually abuse them when they were unconscious on the operating tables.

“Given its importance, its complexity and the number of victims, this procedure has been described as extraordinary by the direction of the judicial services of the Ministry of Justice“said the Lorient lawyer, Stephane Kellenberger. According to investigations, the accused was very careful to hide what he did so as not to be discovered.

The victims’ cases

He accused admitted during the interrogations the facts, as recounted by the authorities: “He explained his methods of operation, the determination of his actions, as well as the precautions that he took to avoid the risk of being discovered,” Kellenberger explained.

At the moment, researchers have a list of 299 young people and children abused by this pedophile, of whom 141 They are victims feminine and 158 men. At an average age, the victims had 11 years at the time of the attacks and only 14 of the total were over 20.

He surgeon was in charge of document all the abuses in notebookswhere he noted the age of the victims and put together a chronological list of the violations. In 2020, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the sexual assault of a 6-year-old neighbor, and also for the rape of two of his nieces and a patient.