When the two genders knocked on the door in 2019, Marie didn’t think she was trying to find herself in the dark heart of one of the world’s biggest child abuse cases.
The French mother, now 38, told her that an officer said she was a surgeon and the victim of a serial pedophile who was allegedly accused of sexually abusing hundreds of children. I was shocked when I said that.
She recalls asking them: “Did I touch it?”
“No, Madame. I was raped,” they replied.
“I didn’t think they were talking about me. It’s like cancer, you think it only happens to other people,” she said. “And how could I have forgotten that?”
Faced with a blank memory in Marie, police showed handwritten notes in Le Skullneck’s 1996 “The Black Book.”
“I had my last name, my name, my age, my parents’ address, everything he did and how he felt. I didn’t like it. The word “rape” was tough enough. , there were these indecent phrases of what happened here. ”
Le Scouarnec, now 74, appeared in court on Monday for sexual abuse of 299 patients (158 men, 141 women, under 15 years old), and between 1989 and 2014. Recovered from anesthesia or operation. The average age of his suspected victims was 11.
The surgeon, entitled “My Pedophile Letter,” is one document, denies penetrating his penis. Under French law, rape is an act of sexual penetration through body parts or purposes.
At the four-month trial, local health and hospital authorities allowed surgeons employed in 12 public and private health institutions in Brittany and Western France to continue practicing for almost 10 years after conviction. You will also face difficult questions about why. Access to online child abuse images.
“There was Omerta. People knew, but they didn’t say anything. Without this silence he would have been banned from seeing his children in 2004, but there would be far fewer casualties. “Mauricet Vinette told the observer that he was one of Le Scowlneck’s patients.
Matisse was 10 years old and was admitted to an appendicitis hospital in June 2007. In 2019 he was also visited by police who told him what he had found in Le Skaurneck’s notebook. Two years later, at the age of 24, he died of an overdose.
Maurickett and her husband, Roland Vinette, believe alleged abuse is a deep cause of her grandson’s chaotic lifestyle and drug addiction. “When the police told him what he knew, it was hell for him. The sky fell on his head,” she said. “We tried to support him, but he refused to talk about it. It killed him.”
The trial is shaking from Mazan’s hearing last fall, with 51 men including her husband Dominique, who invited her to abuse strangers by taking drugs. We saw 51 men convicted of assault.
Francesca Satta, the Vignette family and other alleged victims, who represent Marie, described Le Scowleneck as “very perverse” and used the workplace as a “hunting ground.” “I explained. Satta believes there could be as many as 400 casualties. At least 12 cases have been dropped as the allegations were outside of hours for indictment.
Satta said the investigation opened “Pandora’s Box” for those treated by Le Skullneck. It was not them who went to the police, but the police who came to them. “It caused real pain. Many of the victims were 5-10 years old at the time, many were anesthetized and they couldn’t know what happened. Most were completely unclear. In any case, Anyway, they were kids who didn’t recognize the difference between medical practice and sexual abuse. And he was a doctor. They and their parents trusted him,” Satta said.
Children may not remember what happened to them, but Le Skouarneck’s meticulous, handwritten notes form the basis for the prosecution’s case. Lolient prosecutor Stephen Kellenberger said: They were not in a position to recognize or report the facts. It should also be noted that Le Skaurneck highlighted the stealth of his actions and the strategies he used to hide them. ”
43-year-old Amélie Lévêque was featured in Le Scouarnec’s notebook after reading an article in a local newspaper about a surgeon in 2019, contacted the GP, then checked her medical records in 1991, and in 1991. I discovered that I had deleted her appendix. A psychotherapist, she said that repressed memories have resurfaced. “In a few seconds, I was back to nine again in the clinic’s recovery room. Everything was back: emotions, smells, cold, fever, rape. Rebec told La Montagne.
Born in Paris, Le Scaulnec qualified as a surgeon in Nantes’ medical school in 1983, married Marie France, the wife of a medical professional, and moved to Roche, southeast of the city of Tour. In 1994 he was hired at the Private Sacre Coeur Clinic in Vannes, Brittany. For 10 years, the surgeon specialising in gastroenterological surgery worked in 12 hospitals in western France. In 2004 he moved to a public hospital in Lorient, then to Quimperlé.
That year, FBI agents researching international networks are circulating images of child sexual abuse, and Le Scowlneck’s bank cards are accessing dark web Russia’s child sexual abuse sites. It warned the French intelligence agency that it was in use. He was arrested and convicted in 2005 of possession of images of child sexual abuse and sentenced to four months of suspension. His employer was warned, but in the face of a shortage of surgeons and difficulties in hiring, he did not suspend him.
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In 2006, a colleague involved reported Le Scouarnec to L’Ordre des Médecins, a specialist institution for physicians who requested his criminal history. The Ministry of Health was notified, but no action was taken. In 2008, Le Scaurnek was hired at Johnzak Hospital in Challente Maritime, where he notified the director of his previous conviction. Again, no action was taken and he continued his practice.
Frédéric Benoist, a lawyer for the Child Protection Association, told the observers that the civil party of the case, La Voix de L’Enfant (Child’s Voice), had said there was a “chain of structural failures” in the country’s justice and health care system. Ta. Le Skull Neck for Continuation.
When a surgeon was found guilty of accessing images of child abuse in 2005, the court failed to order him to receive psychological treatment, and health authorities understood the seriousness of his crime. I couldn’t do it. “If these agencies were acting properly, they could have stopped Le Skullneck a long time ago. However, each expert at the heart of these agencies was legal. Whether it was medical, he did nothing, and because of their inaction he was able to continue for 30 years,” Benoist said.
The extent of France’s latest sexual scandal raised the question of why he knew Le Scaalneck’s pedophile conviction and suspected abuse, including members of his own family and colleagues.
The scale of Le Skullneck’s alleged abuse allegations was that her neighbor’s six-year-old daughter told her parents that she was sexually moved by her “man with white hair crown” and through a fence in a broken garden 2017 It was discovered in April 2019.
They went to the police and searched the home a week later, and included a hard disk containing over 300,000 photos and videos featuring child sexual abuse under the mattress, as well as details of alleged abuse of child patients. I found a notebook to record. The officers also discovered a collection of life-size dolls underneath the floorboards.
One memo says Le Skullneck writes: “I’m a pedophile and I’ll always be.”
In December 2020, Le Scouarnec was sentenced to 15 years of sexual abuse of four girls. His six-year-old neighbor, a four-year-old patient, two nies were only 4 years old abused. It’s begun.
At the time of this conviction, police had already investigated 299 counts of alleged rape and sexual abuse of young patients during this week’s trial.
Thibaut Kourzawa, a lawyer for Le Scaalneck, told a French journalist: From the start, he is ready to stand up to reality and accept his responsibility. ”
In his book Piégés (Confined), journalist Hugo Lemonier trolled Le Scouarnec’s notebook and linked the police to the victim’s statement. Lemonier also spoke to surgeon colleagues and victims.
In 70% of cases, the surgeon acted on a visit to the room in the morning. Some acts were carried out under the pretext of a medical examination. Others, minorities, in the surgical theatre when the patient was unconscious. Lemonier most had no memory of abuse.
“They were often alone on their visits. Some moments were enough. There were no obstacles. No one asked him questions,” Lemonier wrote, and Le Scouarnec’s profession said. It’s not in control.” “No one could stop him because no one imagined him as a predator.”
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