The doctor accused of abusing 299 children in the greatest trial for pedophilia in the history of France confesses: “I committed hateful acts”

Excircujano Joël Le Scouarnec, Pederasta confessed, acknowledged on Monday the abuses and violations of the majority of 299 of victims identified by the Police in the greatest pedesty trial in the history of France: “I committed hateful acts.”

Standing, dressed in dark clothes, with a serious and impassive face, this 74 -year -old retiree doctor claimed to assume the damage caused to hundreds of victims, with an average age of 11 years at the time of the events, throughout Your professional career. Crimes for which it could be sentenced to a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail.

“If I appear before you, it is because one day, when most of them were still children, I committed hateful acts,” he said from a corner of the hearing room, in a barely audible tone of voice for much of the audience present in court of the criminal of Morbihan, in the Breton city of Vannes.

“I sympathize with the suffering caused to each of these people for the extreme violence of what I wrote. During my interrogations I tried to recognize what were sexual violations and aggressions, but also clarify what I did not consider such acts, ”he continued.

Le Scouarnec said he was “perfectly aware” that the “wounds” that caused his victims “are indelible, irreparable.” “I owe all these people, their loved ones, assume the responsibility of my actions and the consequences they have been able to have and that they will have throughout their lives,” he ended in his brief statement.

The events that are deemed occurred from 1989 to 2014 and took place in several private clinics and public hospitals in western France in which he exercised as a digestive surgeon.

Le Scouarnec raped and sexually abused his patients while still under the effects of anesthesia, after being operated. That is why some do not keep any memory, while others retain some flashes of what happened. One of them, Mathis, committed suicide with 24 years, after knowing that with 10 he was the victim of this pedophile.

“I want (Le Scouarnec) recognize what he has done and pay for it,” the child’s father explained this morning in tears.

Already convicted in 2020 and 2005

This man was already sentenced in 2020 to 15 years in jail for sexual abuse and rapes against four other children. Two were his own nieces. In 2005 he had also been sentenced for possession of child pornography images.

In spite of everything, he continued to exercise as a doctor and treating daily with minors, of which he continued abusing unpunished. Everything was discovered on May 2, 2017, when the police arrested him.

His 6 -year -old neighbor denounced his parents that his Scouarnec had penetrated his intimate parts. When the Police then registered his home he found thousands of documents on child pornography, dolls of different sizes, wigs and intimate newspapers where his crimes had a luxury detail.

Several crimes, such as caresses, fellaties, fingers and other actions were embodied in their notebooks. In addition, Le Scouarnec acknowledged being an “exhibitionist, ‘voyeur’, sadistic, masochistic, eschatological, fetishist, pedophile” and claimed to “be very happy” with all this.

Of the 299 victims, 256 were under 15 years, 158 were boys and 141 girls.

Le Scouarnec showed “his spirit of cooperation with justice,” he told the Maxime Tessier press, one of his lawyers, at the end of the first day of a trial that will be extended to a sentence that will be provided foreseebly on June 6.

“It is a good step forward and a very interesting surprise to have a man willing to recognize the charges that are charged to him,” said Francesca Satta, lawyer of a dozen victims. “It will give victims the opportunity to rebuild their lives and maybe obtain some answers to questions that remain unanswered,” he added.

This process aroused a media interest that exceeds the borders of France, with almost half a thousand accredited journalists to follow it. On Tuesday, the declaration of the three children and the ex -wife of Joël Le Scouarnec is scheduled.