US EditionFrench Paedophile Surgeon Says He Is 'Responsible' for Deaths of Two Victims
- Joel Le Scouarnec, a former French surgeon, admitted in a March 2025 closed session to sexually abusing 299 patients between 1989 and 2014, and said he is responsible for two victims' deaths.
- His abuse occurred often when victims were under anaesthesia or waking after surgery, and police identified hundreds of victims using detailed diaries kept by Le Scouarnec.
- The two victims who died are Mathias Vinet, who died by suicide in 2021, and Alan Roux, found hanged in 2020, both linked by relatives to trauma from Le Scouarnec's assaults.
- In 2020, Le Scouarnec received a 15-year prison sentence for sexually abusing four minors, among them two of his nieces, and he described his actions as "revolting" while expressing remorse to the victims during the court proceedings.
- Victims and advocacy groups criticized institutional failures that allowed his abuse to continue, and some said his guilt admission helped them begin to move past the trauma.
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French paedophile surgeon Le Scouarnec says he is 'responsible' for deaths of two victims
French ex-surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, who is currently on trial for sexually abusing hundreds of patients under the age of 15, told a court on Tuesday he feels "responsible" for the deaths of two of his victims who died by suicide.
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