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Le Scouarnec faces 20 years after admitting sexual assaults on 299 patients

Victims are calling for a government commission to investigate healthcare oversight failures that enabled the abuse

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Overview

  • The 74-year-old admitted to 111 rapes and 189 other sexual assaults on mostly child patients between 1989 and 2014
  • He kept detailed records of his crimes, which investigators used to identify hundreds of victims
  • After a 2005 suspended sentence for possessing child pornography, he continued treating children without any safeguarding measures until 2017
  • The FBI flagged him to French authorities in 2004 for viewing child abuse imagery, but multiple hospitals hired him regardless
  • Victims demand an official inquiry and the provision of psychological and financial support for those affected