“You were the devil and sometimes dressed in a white coat.”
This is what the Prosecutor Stephane Kellenberger told Joel Le Scournec at the end of the biggest French Child abuse trial, A terrible case that rocked a country that has already grown from other high sex crimes.
The trial of the former surgeon called “French worst pedophil” is shocked only for a clean scale. Le Scouarnec abused 299 casualties for 25 years, with an average age of only 11.
Now the victims, their families and lawmakers in the country are reported by a legal system that allowed only that the abuser is condemned to a maximum of 20 years in prison.
But at least two of those who have abused are unable to see justice that served, taking your life for a while before the trial.
“Unfortunately, the verdict does not protect our children and grandmothers in France,” the mother of one of the victims who died outside the court after the sentence of sentence on Wednesday.
Le Scouarnec has now been convicted of raping or sexual assault at 158 boys and 141 girls since 1989. until 2014, she initiated issues about how he could escape like that for such crimes.
The French prosecutor opened a separate probe into the possible criminal liability of other public bodies or individuals who could prevent abuse.
“There is no way that someone can rape and attack the children of all those years without knowledge of people around,” Homayra Selier, the chief of innocence in danger, which supports 40 alleged victims and the prosecutor is in the case.
The Chairman of the Judge Aude Beresi also called on while reading the sentence of Le Scouarec.
“Your works were a blind spot in the medical world, to the extent that your colleagues, the medical authorities, were incapable of stopping your actions,” she said.
Dominique Pelicot trial clothes
Le Scouarnec attacked some of his victims when they were unconscious, in the cold echo The Gisèle Pelicot case heard in France only months ago.
MS Pelicot’s Now-former husband, Dominique Pelicot, and 50 other men were convicted of raping or sexual attack on Southeast in December after a quarterly trial in Avignon that the world was looking into horror.
The case has launched a conversation about sexual violence around the world and forced France to examine the overcoming of rape culture in their society – but less than two months later, the open trial of the country, increasing more concerns as more concerns.
Le Scouarnec has already been convicted of sex crimes on two previous occasions. A four-month prison was placed for the penalty for possession of children’s pornography in 2005. years, but she managed to secure work as a surgeon in the public hospital in Quimperle, Western France, next year.
He continued to work in public hospitals until his arrest in 2017. years for suspicion of rape his six-year-old neighbors. Police revealed diaries that seemed to be the detailed sexual attacks on patient points in hospitals across the region.
Notebooks and ‘my pedophile letters’ detailed year of graphic abuse
2020. year, Le Scouarnec was convicted of raping and sexual assault of his children’s neighbor, as well as two nieces and four-year patients and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Further investigations in Le Scournnec, which described in detail the abuse in the graphic language, led the prosecutors to later accuse of the former surgeon deteriorated rape and sexual attack 299 people. One such document was called “My Pedophile”, Guardian Reports.
Many victims of Le Scourne just found out only attacked when they contacted the police.
One victim had his addition to the surgeon when it was 10. more than 20 years later in 2019. years, the police knocked on her door to tell her she was raped.
Now 38, she told Guardian She was disgusting to read Le Scouarnec notes about her. “It was my last name, my name, age, my parents’ address, all he did and how he felt,” she said. “It was disgusting. The word ‘raped’ was hard enough, but here were these obscene expressions of what happened.”
Le Scouarnec told the Court during the trial not to see his victims as people.
“They were the destination of my fantasies. As the trial continued, I began to see them as individuals, with emotions, anger, suffering and trouble,” he said.
Guilt and hundreds of victims, but potential freedom in years
The trial began on 24. February and took the last four months, but Le Scouarnec pleaded the criminal change through the proceedings.
Despite the scale of his crimes, Le Scouarnec could only be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years, which would run at the same time on his previous sentence.
La Scouarnec Maxime Hessier said that his client was not intended to complain and hopes to be amended with the victims. “Today, justice was delivered,” said Hessier.
In France, it does not matter whether the criminal is convicted of one compensation or hundreds, only with the maximum penalty for one point the most serious violation, which in the case of Le Scouarnec makes it difficult for Rape.
After punishment, French lawyer Myriam Guedj Benayoun said it was unfair to face the same puncture as someone who was convicted of raping one person.
“It will definitely be re-treated, and as it is now standing, considering, it is true that it could be released,” said Mr. Le Scouarnec, “said. The new trial is expected, after the new cites appeared on the latest trial.
One woman who was 10 years old when Le Scouarnec abused her, said France was needed to change his laws so that the offenses could not again be free.
“He was only 20 years old,” Reuters said after the verdict. “There would be thousands of years in the United States. It is unbearable that someone can be drawn.”
As Marie Grimaud, a lawyer who represents some of the alleged victims of Le Scouarnec, before the hearing started on the first day of the trial: “My clients don’t expect anything from Le Scournec. Whether the rape of a child or 300, it’s the same punishment.”
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