France's sentences most prolific paedophile ever
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
A French court has sentenced a doctor thought to be the country's most prolific ever paedophile to a further twenty years in jail. Joel Le Scouarnec had admitted abusing nearly three hundred people, many of them children under sedation.
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(Picture: A man carries a banner reading 'Listen to us' during a demonstration in support of Joel Le Scouarnec's victims on the verdict day of the trial of the French surgeon in Vannes, France, 28 May 2025. Credit: EPA)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:09.8 | Coming up later in the program, we'll be hearing from award-winning screenwriter Jesse Armstrong |
| 0:15.2 | about his latest film, Mountain Head. |
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| 0:48.5 | I'm thinking about all of the people who are not killing each other. |
| 0:52.0 | More on that to come later. |
| 0:54.7 | First, though, until a few years ago, |
| 0:57.0 | Joelle Lascuaneck was a respected pediatric surgeon |
| 1:01.2 | specialising in gastric operations in children in Brittany, France. |
| 1:05.8 | Now he'll be remembered as the country's most prolific paedophile. |
| 1:10.3 | Today, a court found him guilty of raping and |
| 1:12.8 | sexually abusing at least 299 former patients, the vast majority, children. Many of them |
| 1:20.3 | sedated after surgery when the abuse took place. It's the latest case of sex abuse that has |
| 1:26.8 | horrified France, not least because Dr. Lecoaneck |
| 1:30.6 | was convicted on charges of accessing child abuse images as far back as 2005, and yet he was allowed |
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