French paedophile surgeon says ‘responsible’ for deaths of two victims
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Joel Le Scouarnec (right) has been on trial since February accused of 111 rapes and 189 sexual assaults at a dozen hospitals.
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VANNES, France - A former surgeon on trial in France who has admitted to sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most under 15, said on May 20 he considers himself “responsible” for the death of two of his victims.
Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial since February accused of 111 rapes and 189 sexual assaults
Le Scouarnec admitted in March to sexually abusing all 299 victims, many while they were under anaesthesia or waking up after operations between 1989 and 2014.
He told the court on May 20, in a voice shaking with emotion, that “I am responsible” for the deaths of Mr Mathis Vinet, who died after an overdose in 2021 in what his family says was suicide, and Mr Alan Roux, who was found hanged at his home in 2020.
The former doctor is already in prison after being sentenced in December 2020 to 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting four children, including two of his nieces.
The surgeon practised for decades until his retirement in 2017, despite a 2005 sentence for owning sexually abusive images of children. AFP
