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French doctor found guilty of abusing hundreds of children

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Rosie Birchard in Vannes, France
May 28, 2025

A court has handed down a guilty verdict in one of France's largest-ever prosecutions of sexual abuse. Former surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for almost 300 counts of sexually assaulting or raping people, most of them children.

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