A doctor has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for assaulting nearly 300 patients. DW spoke with survivors and family ...

This courtroom sketch by Valentin Pasquier shows Joel Le Scouarnec, now 74, sitting in courtroom and accused of raping or ...

A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of ...

The crimes occurred over three decades in western France. Le Scouarnec's journals detailed the abuse ... working with children until he retired years later.During the recent trial, hospital ...

many of them children, in a trial that has shaken France. Joel Le Scouarnec’s abuse of his patients is considered France’s worst case of paedocriminality to go to trial. He stood accused of ...

Joel Le Scouarnec practised medicine in France for decades as an outwardly respected surgeon while preying on victims to ...

A retired surgeon in France has been found guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of patients, many of them children and under ...

Joël Le Scouarnec has been described as the worst paedophile in history, having been accused of the aggravated rape or sexual ...

A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of ...

Joel Le Scouarnec was sentenced to 20 years in prison over being guilty of raping or sexually abusing 299 victims.

Joel Le Scouarnec sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing nearly 300 children while practising medicine. Despite 2005 conviction for child sexual abuse material, he continued working in hospitals.