Joël Le Scouarnec

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Joël Le Scouarnec (born 3 December 1950) is a French former surgeon, child rapist and paedophile. In May 2025 he was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting 299 victims, mostly child patients in a number of hospitals in western France, over a 25-year period from 1989 to 2014. Most of his victims were under the age of 15, with the youngest just one year old. He had received a suspended sentence in 2005 for downloading child abuse images, but was allowed to continue his surgical practice. He was arrested in 2017 and sentenced in 2020 to 15 years' imprisonment for the rape and sexual assault of four children. The investigation into that case uncovered his journals, in which he had recorded his abuse of hundreds of patients. They were used to track down victims, some of whom learned for the first time that they had been raped or assaulted while under anaesthesia or sedation, and to bring further charges concerning 299 victims against him, in what was the largest child sexual abuse case...

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