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A former surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of children in France has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting 299 children ...

This court sketch shows the defendant, French retired surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, during his trial on May 23, 2025, on charges of rape and sexual assault of 299 former patients.

Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, called an "atomic bomb of pedophilia" in court, has been sentenced to prison for abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children.

Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, was accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of victims, whose average age at the time of the abuse was 11.

Joël Le Scouarnec speaks in court, in the western French city of Vannes, on 23 avril 2025. SERGIO AQUINDO FOR LE MONDE. A French court on Wednesday, May 28, gave the maximum 20-year jail term to ...

Years before Joël Le Scouarnec was charged with abusing 299 former patients, he was convicted of downloading child sexual abuse imagery. By Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic Reporting ...

PARIS — There can only be one number one, and Marine Le Pen knows that too well. Weeks after she was convicted of embezzlement and effectively barred from standing in the 2027 presidential election, ...

The trial of France's most prolific known paedophile comes to an end this week amid widespread frustration.