The former doctor's lawyer says so.
I asked him if he thought all 299 charges were criminal offenses (on his part) and he said yes, says lawyer Maxime Tessier.
The 73-year-old doctor Joël Le Scouarnec is accused of subjecting 299 children to rape and sexual abuse between 1989 and 2014.
Already on the first day of the trial, at the end of February, he admitted to having committed the majority of the crimes he is charged with.
Of the 299 children who were allegedly subjected to abuse by the doctor, more than half were boys, according to the Brittany newspaper Le Télégramme. Most were under 15 years old. The majority were his patients.
In December 2020, Le Scouarnec was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual abuse of four young girls. Two were relatives, the third a four-year-old patient, and the fourth a six-year-old neighbor girl.
In the ongoing trial, which is expected to last four months, Le Scouarnec can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
