Overview

• Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, received France’s maximum 20-year term and must serve at least two-thirds before release after admitting to 111 counts of rape and 189 counts of sexual assault
• His 299 victims included 158 boys and 141 girls with an average age of 11, many of whom were unconscious or under anesthesia during the attacks
• Investigators seized over 300,000 indecent images, child-sized dolls and meticulously kept notebooks detailing his crimes when he was arrested in 2017
• Prosecutors branded him “the devil” and requested a post-sentence preventive detention order amid concerns about his ongoing danger
• Survivors and advocacy groups faulted authorities for ignoring his 2005 child pornography conviction and are calling for systemic reforms in healthcare and justice