Retired French surgeon Joelle le Squarnec was sentenced to 15 years in prison for violence against hundreds of minors reports Le Figaro .
The court session was attended by four of the victims: two of Le Squarnec’s nieces, his neighbor and a child who was once hospitalized in a hospital where a surgeon was practicing. At the hearing, the defendant admitted that he had raped his nieces and several other children.
It is noted that this is the result of the first meeting in the case, which may become the largest investigation of pedophile crimes in the history of the country. The date of the second trial has not yet been set.
The publication writes that at least 30 cases have not been submitted to court, since their statute of limitations has expired. In October this year, a doctor was charged with sexual assault against 312 people, mostly children, between 1986 and 2014. The average age of the victims, including both girls and boys, was 11 years.
In November 2019 it was reported that the police identified 250 potential victims le Squarneca. The man was arrested in 2017 after a six-year-old girl accused him of rape. The house of the surgeon was searched, during which it was found that he was keeping files with child pornography and diaries describing indecent acts towards minors.