Former Sargent admits “despicable behaviour” in France’s biggest child abuse trial

Former French surgeons accused of abusing hundreds of patients, most of whom children admitted that they “have committed despicable behavior” to his victims and “understand and share the suffering.” He said he admitted.

Joel Le Scouarnec is accused of assaulting or raping 299 patients between 1989 and 2014, the majority under the age of 15.

“We are fully aware that these scratches cannot be repaired,” Le Skouarneck said in a halt but clearly.

The 74-year-old, with gray hair, wearing a glass and a black zip-up sweater over a gray shirt, was addressing the courthouse in Banes in northwest France on the first day of the biggest child abuse trial in French history.

Warning: This story contains disastrous details

“I can’t go back, but I borrow it from (the victim) and their relatives and acknowledge the consequences they had, and they will definitely continue to have it throughout their lives.” Le Skournek told the court.

He was attentive throughout the day, when he was primarily devoted to technical procedures, but when two visible, tense men in their 30s rose to identify themselves as victims, There was no particular reaction.

The youngest victim of Le Scouarnec was the oldest 70-year-old, one year old.

Police were able to identify them thanks to a meticulously compiled journal that is allegedly documented assaults committed on young patients over 25 years.

He has already been jailed since 2017 for abusing four children, of which he was convicted in 2020.

Many of the plaintiffs are allegedly abused while they were under anesthesia or recovering from surgery at a hospital in northern France. This means that many of them had to say their names from the police because they had no memories of the abuse that they were said to have lasted. Appeared in Le Scouarnec’s diary.

“All of this horrifying story is not normal… It wasn’t the victim who approached the investigator, it wasn’t the investigator who warned the victim,” prosecutor Stephen Kellenberger told the court.

“Many of them had no memory of me… some would have rather continued unaware. But the silence had reigned for too long.”

Many other allegedly abused people say that the effects of the event have often resulted in serious psychological trauma following their lifetimes.

Mauricet Vinette, the grandmother of a Le Scowlneck patient who committed suicide several years ago, said her grandson, Matisse, was “killed” for alleged abuse of Le Scowlneck.

“If he didn’t happen, Matisse would still be here,” she said.

Attorney Maxim Tissier said at trial Monday that Le Skaurneck admitted the “majority” of charges against him, and that his client would immediately “explaint himself” regarding the charges.

“He is the accused who, despite his age, made himself fully available to the court,” Tissier said.

Le Scouarmec added during his police exams that he “did the best he could to acknowledge events that constituted rape and those that were not in my view.”

Dozens of lawyers also attended the courtroom, but the hundreds of victims they represent were sitting in another overflow room due to the vast numbers. Some psychologists and emotional support dogs are at hand throughout the trial process.

Presiding Judge Aude Buresi read the graphics and rigorous summary of the charges against Le Scouarnec, as well as excerpts from his 2020 interrogation. of his “fantasy.”

But Buresi said several factors, including the level of detail and word selection used by Le Scouarnec, showed that the diary was likely to be true.

In a brief statement to the court on Monday, the former surgeon called his work “very violent.”

An hour before the minutes kicked off dozens of protesters, they held a rally outside the courtroom, spelling out the phrase “Stop the circle of silence,” and another signing was “Who knew?” I brought up a letter that reads:

Victims and child advocacy groups say “all-body failure” allowed Le Skouarneck to continue working with his children.

In 2005, the FBI warned French authorities that they had access to a child abuse website, but this only made them an enforcement officer and faced no consequences at work.

Later, when Le Skaurneck was working at a hospital in Quimperlé, he made sexually charged comments about his young patient, warning local doctors, and made them aware of the suspended sentence. It is said that he raised suspicions.

Members of the association were summoned, and all doctors (withdrawal) except one doctor voted that Le Skaurneck did not violate the Code of Medical Ethics. The BBC approached the Regional Medical Association for comments

The association is currently pressuring it to file charges against Le Skullneck to “disgrace the medical profession,” Secretary Didier Robin said Monday.

His statement drew a quick rebuttal from Frédéric Benoist, a lawyer representing child protection advocacy group La Voix de L’Enfant (The Child’s Voice), who previously said Le Scouarnec had “been doing his actions for a large degree.” He said he could commit dysfunction among medical professionals.

Benoist said that the Medical Association was allowed to be listed as plaintiffs “is morally indecent and legally suspicious.” “It’s unacceptable that (the association) is sitting with the victim,” he said.

Monday’s session ended early – something unlikely to happen again in the course of the ordeal. This will run on a strict schedule and is expected to end in June.

At the request of the plaintiff, some sessions will be held closed doors, but the majority will be open to journalists and the public.

Le Skullneck’s ex-wife and his brother will be heard in court on Tuesday.

We were asked why we attended the procedure that would definitely include sordid and graphic details of abuse. A woman is about to enter the overflow room.

“I want to see what human nature can do because all of this – it’s beyond me,” she said.