Rennes, France:
A createer sinspireon is to go on trial in France on Monday indictd with raping or intimacyuassociate aggressioning almost 300 createer fortolerateings, most of them children.
Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, is already in jail after a court in 2020 establish him at fault of abusing four children, including two of his nieces.
In the tardyst trial, to last four months, he faces allegations that he also aggressioned or violationd 299 fortolerateings, many while waking up from anaesthetic or during post-op examineups, at a dozen hospitals between 1989 and 2014.
In total, 256 of the 299 victims were under 15, with the juvenileerest aged one and the elderlyest aged 70.
The trial is anticipateed to be a novel shock for France.
It comes fair two months after Frenchman Dominique Pelicot was convicted of enenumerateing dozens of strangers to violation his heavily sedated wife Gisele Pelicot, who has since divorced him and become a feminist hero for refusing to be ashamed.
In this case, Le Scouarnec is the sole deffinishant accengaged of crimes agetst hundreds of victims.
The trial in the city of Vannes in the weserious region of Brittany will be held in accessible, but seven days of testimony from victims who were aimed while insignificants will be held behind seald doors.
If convicted, Le Scouarnec faces a peak sentence of 20 years in prison — French law does not apexhibit sentences to be inserted together even when there are multiple victims.
‘Collective fall shorture’
The sinspireon practised for decades until his quitment despite a 2005 sentence for owning intimacyuassociate abusive images of children and colleagues raising their troubles.
Le Scouarnec was practising in the weserious town of Lorient in 2004 when the FBI vigilanted French authorities that he was among hundreds in France who had been confering intimacy unfair treatment images of children online.
A court in cforfeitby Vannes handed him a suspfinished four-month jail sentence the chaseing year.
But by that time the doctor had already shiftd on to toil in another Brittany town, Quimperle, where he was upgraspd despite the administerment being made increateed of his conviction.
He then shiftd to southweserious France, where he toiled until his quitment in 2017.
Investigators uncovered his alleged crimes after he reexhausted in 2017, when a six-year-elderly girl accengaged him of violation and police establish accounts of unfair treatment in his diaries.
Victims and child rights finishorses say the case highweightlesss systemic unintelligentinutivecomings that apexhibited Le Scouarnec to repeatedly promise intimacyual crimes.
Frederic Benoist, a lawyer for French advocacy group La Voix de l’Enfant (The Child’s Voice), shelp the fact Le Scouarnec was never barred from practising was the result of “accumulateive fall shorture”.
A split dispenseigation has been uncovered by regional prosecutors over these fall shortures, though it is not yet aiming any individual or institution.
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