28-05-2025
French court gives 20-year jail term to surgeon for abusing children
A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a French surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them minors, during more than two decades.
The court's verdict was delivered after the three-month trial of Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, which has brought to light the extent of his crimes and the suffering of his victims but also raised questions of why more was not done sooner to stop him preying on victims.
