Joel Le Scouarnec, a former surgeon who recognized sexual abuse of hundreds of patients, mostly children, between 1989. and 2014. was sentenced to a maximum period of 20 years in prison.
Le Scouarnec was dressed in black as he stood without emotions in the court who listened to the Judge Aude Buresa verdict. He admitted sexually abuse of all 299 victims in March.
Judge Buresi said that the court took into account the fact that the former surgeon was especially looking for incomprehensible, vulnerable and seduced victims.
The sentence has two-thirds in a compulsory minimum mandate – and because Le Scouarnec has already served seven years, may be eligible for parole by 2030. Years.
Amelie Levekue, one of the victims of Le Scouarnec, said, “He thinks he could walk on the street, see people – who no longer have a normal life as they returned that life, and that returns that life to him.”
“Twenty years is a little compared to the number of victims in this trial,” said Francesca Satta, a lawyer for some of the victims. “It’s time for the law to change so we can have more than one matching sentences.”
His lawyer Makima Tessier said Le Scouarner didn’t intend to complain.
Le Scouaarnec, 74, called the most fertile pedophile of France. It is already in prison after it was sentenced to 2020. To 15 years for rape and sexual assault to four children, including two of their nieces.
The former doctor at the trial is in Bretania since the end of February.
During that time, tens of his victims testified, saying the court how abusing they sustained as children in the form of their life.
In March, Le Scouarnec admitted sexually abuse of all his victims, much while they were under anesthesia or waking up after surgeries.
He kept the diaries in which he described the attacks in graphic details, which allowed the police to find his victims – many of whom did not suffer from the abuse as they suffered while they suffered to Le Scouarnec.
Earlier this month He also said that “responsible” for the death of two victims Whose relatives say she died suicide, after trauma sexually attacked Le Scouarnec while they were children.
Grandma and Grandpa One of them, Mathis Vinet, who died four years ago, said BBC about “Lowering into hell” experienced by his grandson When the police revealed that his name appeared in one of the diaries.
“I can no longer look at the same way, because I’m pedophile and a children’s rapist,” Le Scouarnec said during the last week last week.
“Many things are said. I don’t necessarily remember. It will not be noted now. I will not be back when I am in my cell, but what I testified (in court) is the suffering I am responsible for,” he said.
He added that he didn’t even look for or expected to be given any gentleness.
The trial caused anger that Le Scouarnec had escaped with abuse for more than fifteen, and that he was allowed to pursue children despite conviction in 2005. years to take pedophile images.
Joel Le Scouarnec victims of the Collective Group complained that the trial failed to catch the attention of politicians and society at large.
“No lesson is drawn from this, nor from the medical world either of politicians,” said the group in the statement. Several victims held a protest in front of the courtroom in front of the judgment submitted on Wednesday afternoon.
Catherine, the victim’s mother, said the day of the judgment that she was the first time that she saw so many journalists who covered the trial and added that the victim was forgotten.
“Too bad, but my hope is that our message can be transferred now. Not for the generation that was injured, but she said, adding to hope that institutions would” react “.
Le Scouarnec, who was present in court every day of the trial in 14 weeks, more times apologized for his “disgusting” works.
Many of his victims were left unimpressed with his behavior. “His words are always the same, in the same tone, I don’t see any honesty in them,” Louis-Marie said, 35, said BBC. “The only thing I hope that it doesn’t work more harm to society … to stay closed.”
“I’ve never seen tears run down the cheeks,” another victim said named Manon Lemoin.
But Makime Tessier, Law Le Scouarnec, said he believed his client was honest. “He was very moved during this trial … It was very important to him to admit how he did. It was the moment of truth and justice.”
Mr. Tessier also pointed out the medical establishment, which civil parties were accused of not working more to stop Le Scouarnec to practice the medicine even when the rumors on pedophiles were widely circulated.
“No one recognized responsibility, while all the victims said that it was not just the man who did it – but also the system that let him do it,” he said he said to the BBC.
The National Order of the doctor (CNOM), which also submitted a lawsuit against Le Scouranec, he said in March that he “expressed his deep regret” as the former surgeon should be “prevented from” preventing from exercising “.
“This situation highlighted bad communication between different doctors orders, and we deeply regret,” they said in the statement.
Additional reporting of Marianne Baisnee in Vannes
