Ms Lemoine and some 50 other victims, stung by an apparent lack of public interest in the trial, have formed their own campaign group to pressure the French authorities, accusing the government of ...

The numbers involved in France’s largest child abuse trial are staggering: 299 alleged victims, sexually abused in 10 hospitals and clinics over 25 years – all by one doctor, prosecutors say.

That is what prosecutor Stephane Kellenberger told Joel Le Scouarnec at the end of France’s largest-ever child abuse trial, a horrific case that rocked a country already reeling from other high ...

Former French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec sexually abused 299 children over the course of 25 years, most of whom were under the age of 15, in one of the largest cases of child sexual abuse France has ...

A verdict is expected in one of France's largest-ever child sex abuse cases. The trial of pedophile surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec has raised painful questions about how he was able to rape hundreds ...

Lévêque is set to testify at France’s largest-ever child sex abuse trial, which opens Monday in Vannes, a picturesque town in coastal Brittany. Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74 ...

Instead, the trial of France's most prolific known paedophile ... organised silence" regarding child abuse. She spoke of a patriarchal society in which men in respected positions like medicine ...

Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Myriam Guedj-Benayoun (L) has spoken of a code of silence in France on child abuse (file pic) The depravity exposed during the trial has been astonishing ...