THE former surgeon Who pleaded guilty to the sexually abuse of 299 people, most of them, was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison on Wednesday by a French court, in what is considered the greatest case of pedophilia in the history of the country.
“It was the predation of the most vulnerable victims when they were sick in the hospital,” said Judge Aude Buresi at the Vannes courthouse, a coastal city in Brittany where the majority of abuses took place. She also prohibited the former surgeon, Joël Le Scouarnec, never to practice medicine or to have contacts with minors and said that he had to serve two thirds of his sentence before being eligible for parole.
The trial revealed Large cracks in legal and health administrative bureaucracies This did not take a clear warning sign seriously: in 2005, Mr. Le Scouarnec was found guilty of having downloaded the children’s abuse and to have a four -month suspended sentence by a French court. However, he was authorized to continue to treat children unattended until his arrest in 2017.
Three years later, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for rape and sexually assaulting four children. Wednesday’s conditions replace this because there is no consecutive prison sentence in France.
The last test came in the middle A growing calculation in France on sexual abuseThe number of victims reporting the implementation of the police, business bulky the courts and new #MeToo movements brilliant at a dizzying pace.
Many victims have considered that the trial of the Scouarnec had been drowned by this refrain and did not invite the outcry and the political responses they had hoped. After the verdict, many of those who had gathered outside the courthouse expressed their disappointment, claiming that they hoped that Mr. Le Scouarnec would receive an exemplary exemplary sentence of new legal grounds, given the scale of his crimes.
