Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A French former surgeon accused of abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, has told a court that he admits to having ‘committed despicable acts’ and ‘understands and shares the suffering’ caused to his alleged victims. Joel Le Scouarnec is accused of assaulting or raping 299 patients, the vast majority under 15 years old, between 1989 and 2014, mostly in Brittany. … The youngest of Le Scouarnec’s alleged victims was aged one and the oldest 70. Police were able to identify them thanks to meticulously-compiled diaries in which Le Scouarnec is alleged to have logged assaults he carried out on his young patients over more than 25 years. He has already been imprisoned since 2017 for abusing four children, of which he was found guilty in 2020.” (02/24/25)