US EditionNews24 | French Doctor Labelled ‘Atomic Bomb of Paedophilia’ Jailed for 20 Years for Child Sex Abuse
- On May 23, 2025, a French court in Vannes sentenced retired surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing 299 patients, mostly children.
- Le Scouarnec committed these crimes between 1989 and 2014 in hospitals across western France, despite earlier convictions and investigations that failed to stop him.
- Many assaults happened while victims were under anaesthesia or waking after operations, with the average victim age being 11 and the youngest only four years old.
- The presiding judge Aude Buresi handed down the maximum sentence allowed for aggravated rape, stating the sentence aims to prevent reoffending, while the prosecutor noted Le Scouarnec could have faced '2,000 years' in the US.
- The case exposed systemic failures in French authorities allowing repeated abuse, prompting calls for stronger protections and reforms to prevent future predator access to vulnerable patients.
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In France, the trial of a doctor, Joel Le Skouarnec, accused of raping nearly 300 children, was concluded, the average age of the victims being 11 years, and the court sentenced 74-year-old Le Skouarnec to 20 years of imprisonment.
A French surgeon was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week for abusing 299 patients, mostly children. According to child psychiatrist Laelia Benoit, it is part of French culture to view children as inferior, and that encourages abuse. “Children in France are expected to be submissive to adults.”
News24 | French doctor labelled ‘atomic bomb of paedophilia’ jailed for 20 years for child sex abuse
A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, but victims, some in tears, expressed disappointment with the verdict.
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AlKhaleej TodayFrench court sentences surgeon, ‘an atomic bomb of paedophilia’, to max 20 years for sexually abusing 299 kids
VANNES (France), May 29 — A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, but victims, some in tears, expressed disappointment with the verdict. The three-month trial of Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has brought to light the extent of his crimes and the suffering of his victims but also raised questions about why more was not done sooner to stop him. …
The retired surgeon sexually abused hundreds of patients, with the youngest victim allegedly one and the oldest 70 years old.
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