Diaries of a monster: French surgeon’s record details a catalogue of child abuse, Joel Le Scouarnec: How did French paedophile surgeon carry out abuse unchecked for decades?
Easy answer, rape religions and the raping Patriarchy rule the world; they don’t care how many lives their pedophiles destroy by raping us. Rapes of kids lubes their souls. Think of how powerful authorities feel, notably lawyers and judges, when they enable rapists, set them free, or keep them free to rape again and again, or rape kids themselves. by Adam Parsons and Sophie Garratt, 20 February 2025, Sky News
French surgeon’s record details a catalogue of abuse
Warning: This article contains references to suicide and material readers might find disturbing
Every year, on his birthday, Joel Le Scouarnec composed an entry in his diary. First, he would record his age. Then he would write: “I am a paedophile, and I am proud of it.”
Like Zionists are proud of USA-Israel mass murdering innocent Palestinian kids and women
To the rest of the world, he seemed like a respected medical professional, a surgeon who cared for thousands of patients and provided support to their relatives. But Le Scouarnec, now 74, hid a dark secret – his compulsion to abuse children.
He’s now on trial, accused of a litany of sex crimes involving 299 alleged victims, almost all of whom were his patients, and most of whom were children. In total, he’s accused of 300 separate offences – 111 rapes and 189 sexual assaults – which took place across 25 years in more than a dozen hospitals.He’s as efficient and successful as raping catholic priests and their higher ups
The average age of his alleged victims was just 11 years old, split almost equally between boys and girls. He was eventually stopped in 2017, following investigations that involved multiple police forces and even the FBI.
It is a long and horrific list, agonisingly detailed by the prosecution, but it boils down to one fact – Le Scouarnec is alleged to be the most prolific child abuser ever apprehended in France and, perhaps, in all of Europe.
After decades of allegedly abusing patients without any repercussions, Le Scouarnec seemed to believe he was invincible. His crimes finally came to light when his six-year-old neighbour told her mother he had sexually abused her while she was playing in the garden of her home, in the town of Jonzac in southwest France.
The investigations that followed led to his conviction and imprisonment for raping and sexually assaulting four young girls in 2020. But evidence recovered by the police during that investigation revealed abuse on a far wider scale.
When the police entered Le Scouarnec’s house, they found a scene that was both sinister and shocking. There were 300,000 indecent photos and videos of children (some hard copies and some on computers), 70 child-sized dolls – some of which were chained up – wigs and, crucially, hundreds of notebooks and diaries detailing his acts of abuse.
‘This man destroyed my life’
This macabre discovery went on to change the lives of hundreds of people who had been unaware they were victims of Le Scouarnec’s crimes. Among them was Marie*. Now in her late thirties, she was just 10 years old when she was hospitalised suffering from acute appendicitis. Joel Le Scouarnec was her surgeon. In his diaries, he wrote about abusing her while she was under anaesthesia.
For many years, Marie, like many of the alleged victims, didn’t know she’d been assaulted, until a visit from the police shed light on a feeling that something had happened to her body which she couldn’t explain.
“This man destroyed my life and the lives of so many children… When I heard I was among the alleged victims, I told myself that’s the missing jigsaw piece,” said Marie. “I was shocked but then I began to make a connection between this and the problems I had experienced, especially regarding my issue with intimacy and relationships with men.”
The FBI raised the alarm
In 2004, as part of a global investigation into paedophile networks, the FBI found evidence Le Scouarnec had shared and downloaded pornographic images of children via a website based in the United States.
The FBI alerted French authorities and the former surgeon was arrested and then charged with possession of indecent images of minors. In 2005, the case was heard in court and he was given a four-month suspended sentence. What happened is a shocking example of how this doctor’s activities were ignored, leaving him to continue his alleged abuse.
In 2006, a psychiatrist working at the same hospital as Le Scouarnec wrote to the management, expressing concern that the surgeon was practising on children despite having a conviction for sharing images on paedophile websites.
The letter was referred to the ombudsman. A similar letter of concern was sent by a trade union representing healthcare workers. But no further action was taken.Rule by vile raping Patriarchy
In 2008, he transferred to practise at another hospital in Jonzac. The hospital’s director had the surgeon’s file, which contained the documents regarding his previous convictions and letters of concern from colleagues, but chose to employ him.
That same year, an anaesthetist at the same hospital was convicted of possessing and sharing indecent images of children. He, too, was also allowed to continue to practise at the hospital and treat young patients.
‘He could have been stopped’
“Nobody will attack a high-ranking surgeon,” said Francesca Satta, a lawyer representing some of Le Scouarnec’s alleged victims, adding that the surgeon was “overlooked” because of his position.
She added: “The evidence was there. There were searches at his home and they found indecent images of children. The diaries existed but were not discovered… he could have been stopped.“Ya, but stopping pedophiles does not serve rape religion or the patriarchy.
If, in 2006, he’d been prevented from treating children, there would be at least 20 fewer alleged victims in this case.
Among them was a little boy named Mathis Vinet.
His grandparents, Roland and Mauricette, welcomed us into their home with warm handshakes and cups of coffee. Their living room was filled with books and family photos. But they were on edge; burdened by grief and anger, mixed with a desperate desire for justice.
Their grandson, Mathis, was just 10 years old when he was taken to hospital with stomach pains and came under the care of Joel Le Scouarnec.
“He admitted our grandson and examined him,” Roland recalled, adding that the surgeon said Mathis needed to stay in hospital overnight. “He said if anything urgent happened we would be alerted.”
Le Scouarnec told the family to leave Mathis in his care. That night, he allegedly abused the boy as he lay in bed. His grandparents still have the discharge paper, signed by the former surgeon.
That day changed Mathis completely, according to his family.
The young boy who enjoyed helping his grandfather in the garden was replaced by a troubled youth whose life unravelled as he fell into addiction.
Like most of the other alleged victims, he remained unaware that he’d been attacked by Le Scouarnec until told by the police, more than a decade later.
“There was a knock at the door,” Mauricette remembers. “Mathis was alone. He’d started using drugs, so he thought he might be in trouble. When they left, having told him… his world came crashing in around him. He had flashbacks and called us the next day to say he was in a bad place.”
“He took drugs to make himself feel better… but it didn’t work.”
On the table, there is a picture of Mathis as a boy, beaming. In later pictures, he looks more sombre, as if he has turned in on himself.
In 2021, he took his own life, aged just 24 years old.
‘To call him a monster is an understatement’
Le Scouarnec doesn’t deny his abuse of many of the young children about whom he wrote in his diaries. He told investigators he did everything he wrote about, but didn’t realise how many children there were.
“We can call him a monster but it’s an understatement,” said Satta, who has worked across cases involving violent murderers and notorious criminals. “He has just one thing on his mind, 24/7, and that is sexually abusing young children.”
But there is another troubling unknown in this case. During the trial, 299 alleged victims will air their accusations against Le Scouarnec in court, but there could be more.
At least two years of diaries disappeared, which means more former patients of Le Scouarnec could still be unaware of what happened to them as children.
The case against the former surgeon involves so many victims, that a normal courtroom is not big enough. An annexe will be opened to accommodate the hundreds of victims, lawyers, family members, journalists and members of the public who will follow the proceedings over the next four months.
The victims will gather in a lecture theatre to watch the trial on a big screen. It is the sort of room that you might find anywhere, but as you look around, at the hundreds of seats, you are reminded that each one of these has been allocated to an alleged victim.
There are so many questions that haven’t been answered. How could so many chances to stop him have been missed? Does French society have an inbuilt fear of exposing sexual crimes? Did Le Scouarnec really act alone, or did he have a network with others?
It’s the patriarchy and the world’s raping religions!
But, above all, will these victims feel a sense of closure if the allegations against Le Scouarnec are upheld?
For Marie, it’s about protecting others. “This man is a predator of children. His place is in prison and he needs to stay there.“
Most of the alleged victims were children when they last saw Joel Le Scouarnec. Now they return as adults, to confront him in court.
Some of the pain they suffered due to abuse in a hospital may yet be healed by the punishment of a court.
*name has been changed
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Why has the ‘world’s worst paedophile’ only been jailed for 20 years? by Emma Morgan, MSN
A French court has found a retired surgeon guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of patients, many of them children, in a trial that has shaken France.
Joël Le Scouarnec has been described as the worst paedophile in history, having been accused of the aggravated rape or sexual assault of 299 victims.
Le Scouarnec told the court he committed “despicable acts” over a 25-year period whilst he worked as a doctor in western France, in a trial that has raised uncomfortable questions for the publicly run healthcare system.
The 74-year-old was allowed to continue treating children even after a child pornography conviction in 2005.
He was sentenced to 20 years in jail and will not be eligible for parole until he has served at least two-thirds of his term.
However, Le Scouarnec is already serving jail time for earlier rape convictions. In 2020, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape and sexual assault of a child neighbour, as well as his two nieces and a four-year-old patient.
Under French law, his two sentences will run concurrently, so he should only serve the additional years after the first sentence is complete.
This means he could be eligible for parole by 2030.
Stéphane Kellenberger, the public prosecutor, told Le Scouarnec: “You were the devil and sometimes the devil is dressed in a white coat.”
He said that the retired surgeon would have been jailed for 4,111 years in the US.
In France, meanwhile, the maximum term for aggravated rape is 20 years, and sentences are not added together on individual counts.
Victims will ‘never forgive you – never’
Presiding Judge Aude Buresi, whose voice at times appeared to choke with emotion, said Le Scouarnec had preyed on victims when they were at their most vulnerable, including whilst under anaesthesia.
“Your acts were a blind spot in the medical world, to the extent that your colleagues, the medical authorities, were incapable of stopping your actions,” the judge told Le Scouarnec.
The court ordered Le Scouarnec be placed on the sex offenders register. The judge also barred him from practicing medicine or having contact with minors.
During the trial, Le Scouarnec told the court that he was aware that the harm he had caused was irreparable.
“I owe it to all these people and their loved ones to admit my actions and their consequences, which they’ve endured and will keep having to endure all their lives,” he added.
The judge said she understood many victims hoped Le Scouarnec would never walk out of jail, but that the law did not allow her to impose a life sentence.
The court heard that Le Scouarnec had assaulted or raped some patients while they were under anaesthetic – meaning that many had no idea what had happened – or when they were waking up.
Others were awake at the time, and Le Souarnec told them what he was doing was part of an examination.
Thomas Delaby, the lawyer representing some of the victims, described Le Scouarnec as “the worst mass paedophile who ever lived,” and said his clients “will never forgive you, never”.
In his final statement to the court before the verdict, Le Scouarnec said: “I am not asking the court for leniency. Simply grant me the right to become a better person.”
Prosecutors said that a second trial is likely to be needed to hear of the cases of dozens more people who were likely attacked by Le Scouarnec but who were never contacted by investigators.
The trial took place at a time of reckoning around sex crimes in France after the conviction of Dominique Pelicot, who was found guilty in December of drugging his wife unconscious and inviting dozens of men to their home to rape her.
Victims and their families have publicly asked why local and national health authorities failed to stop Le Scouarnec. In 2005, he was convicted of downloading images of child sexual abuse and received a suspended jail sentence, but managed to continue working in public hospitals.
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Several dozen victims and rights campaigners gathered outside the courthouse ahead of the verdict, holding a banner made of hundreds of pieces of white paper with black silhouettes, one for each victim. Some of the papers bore a first name and age, while others referred to the victim as “Anonymous”.
The extent of Le Scouarnec’s abuse was revealed after his re-arrest in 2017 on suspicion of raping his six-year-old neighbour.
Police discovered electronic diaries that appeared to detail more than two decades of rapes and sexual assaults on young patients – including their names, ages, addresses and the nature of his crimes – in hospitals across the region, as well as a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography. In one notebook, Le Scouarnec said he was “very happy” to be a paedophile.
The trial took place in Vannes, a small town in Brittany.
The local prosecutor, whose office led the investigation into Le Scouarnec, has opened a separate investigation to ascertain if there was any criminal liability by agencies or individuals who could have prevented the abuse.
Additional reporting from agencies.
French court sentences former surgeon to 20 years for raping, sexually assaulting 299 children by Nicolas Vaux-montagny and Samuel Petrequin, The Associated Press, May 28, 2025, CBC News
A 74-year-old pedophile and former surgeon was given a maximum 20-year prison sentence on Wednesday by a French court for the rape and sexual assault of hundreds of patients, mostly children, over more than two decades.
Joël Le Scouarnec was sentenced after admitting molesting nearly 300 victims in one of the country’s largest-ever child sex abuse cases, which has raised questions about how he was able to abuse so many, for so long.
Judges followed the public prosecutor’s recommendations regarding the length of the sentence and the criminal court of Morbihan, in western France, ordered that Le Scouarnec should serve at least two-thirds of the punishment before he can be eligible for release, because he remains dangerous.
But the court did not impose a post-sentence preventive detention, prompting the anger of many victims.
Solène Podevin Favre, president of an advocacy group for child victims of incest and other sexual crimes, expressed shock at a verdict “we might have expected to be less lenient,” lamenting that post-sentence preventive detention was not imposed.
“It’s the maximum sentence, certainly,” she said. “But it’s the least we could have hoped for. Yet in six years, he could potentially be released. It’s staggering.”The Partriarchy won’t allow it any other way. Sick.
Le Scouarnec, who has been jailed since 2017, is already serving a 15-year prison sentence, for a conviction in 2020 for the rape and sexual assault of four children, including two nieces. In French law, sentences run concurrently and Le Scouarnec should only serve the additional years after the first sentence is completed.
Post-sentence preventive detention is a measure rarely used in France that applies to the country’s most dangerous offenders. Had it been approved, Le Scouarnec could have been held indefinitely in a secure socio-medical facility, even after serving his time.
“The Court fully understood the requests from the civil parties that Mr. Le Scouarnec should never be released from prison. It would be demagogic and illusory to make them believe that this is possible,” the court said. “As things stand, the law does not allow it. And preventive detention, an exceptional measure, could in no way allow the Court to circumvent this reality.”
Le Scouarnec’s lawyer said his client won’t appeal the ruling.
Accusations of inaction
The new trial began in February and laid bare a pattern of abuse between 1989 and 2014.
Most of the victims were unconscious or sedated hospital patients at the time of the assaults. The average age was 11.I am screaming
Le Scouarnec has confessed to all the sexual abuse alleged by the civil parties, as well as to other assaults that are now beyond the statute of limitations. In a shocking admission during the trial, he also acknowledged sexually abusing his granddaughter – a statement made in front of her visibly distraught parents.I bet that gave him an orgasm. Heinous monster. Disgusting humans, made in God’s image.
During the trial, advocacy groups have accused health authorities of inaction after they were notified as soon as 2005 of Le Scouarnec’s conviction for possessing child pornography pictures. At the time, no measures were taken to suspend his medical license or limit his contact with children and Le Scouarnec continued his abuse in hospitals until his arrest in 2017.
Child protection groups hope that the case will help strengthen the legal framework to prevent such abuse.
Dismantling taboos
Le Scouarnec’s trial came as activists continue to push to dismantle taboos that have long surrounded sexual abuse in France. The most prominent case was that of Gisèle Pélicot, who was drugged and raped by her now ex-husband and dozens of other men who were convicted and sentenced in December to three to 20 years in prison.
In a separate case focusing on alleged abuse at a Catholic school, an inquiry commission of the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, is investigating allegations of physical and sexual abuse over five decades.
Victims of Le Scouarnec have, however, complained of a perceived lack of attention.
“This trial, which could have served as an open-air laboratory to expose the serious failings of our institutions, seems to leave no mark on the government, the medical community, or society at large,” a group of victims said.
Horrific notebooks
Not all victims were initially aware they had been abused. Some were contacted by investigators after their names appeared in journals kept by Le Scouarnec, in which he meticulously documented his crimes. Others only realized they had been hospitalized at the time after checking medical records. Two of his victims took their own lives some years before the trial.
Using the cover of medical procedures, the former abdominal and digestive surgeon took advantage of moments when children were alone in their hospital rooms. His method was to disguise sexual abuse as clinical care, targeting young patients who were unlikely to remember the encounters.
The notebooks, which detail the abuse in graphic language, have become central to the prosecution’s case.
Despite the scope of the allegations, Le Scouarnec remained calm and composed throughout the trial.
“I didn’t see them as people,” he told the court. “They were the destination of my fantasies. As the trial went on, I began to see them as individuals, with emotions, anger, suffering and distress.”
He said his first act of abuse occurred in 1985, when he raped his 5-year-old niece.
Detached and emotionless
While he offered apologies to some victims, his demeanour struck many as detached and emotionless.
The court, however, noted that Le Scouarnec “made a point of taking responsibility for his actions,” demonstrating “his intention to make amends for the consequences of his actions.”Fuck these judges. Do they not wonder why rapes never stop? I am beginning to think the only way judges will start to face reality about these raping monsters, is for judges to be raped and brutally beaten, tortured, repeatedly, over years. Maybe then, they’ll start to understand. His “intention?” FFS!
The case first came to light in April 2017, when a 6-year-old neighbour told her mother that the man next door had exposed himself and touched her through the fence separating their properties. A search of his home uncovered more than 300,000 photos, 650 pedophilic, zoophilic and scatological video files, as well as notebooks where he described himself as a pedophile and detailed his actions.
A third trial is expected in the coming years, following the emergence of new allegations during this trial, including further abuse involving his granddaughter.
Who Is Joel Le Scouarnec, ‘Worst Paedophile In Medical History’? He Also Raped His Son’s… by: Buzz Staff, May 29, 2025, News 18
Joel Le Scouarnec was sentenced to 20 years in prison over being guilty of raping or sexually abusing 299 victims.
The trial of “France’s worst-ever paedophile,” aka former surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, has finally concluded with the court sentencing him to a maximum of 20 years in prison. Joel Le Scouarnec was found guilty of raping or sexually abusing 299 victims, most of whom were his minor patients.
The 74-year-old was accused of carrying out a pattern of violence spanning over three decades between 1989 and 2014, committing the crime against 158 boys and 141 girls.
“You were the devil and he sometimes is dressed in a white coat,” said prosecutor Stephane Kellenberger at the end of the trial, with Judge Aude Buresi noting that Scouarnec used to prey on his victims in their hospital rooms, with some unconscious under anaesthesia. “Your acts were a blind spot in the medical world, to the extent that your colleagues, the medical authorities, were incapable of stopping your actions,” the judge added.
Earlier in March, Scouarnec himself admitted to sexually abusing all 299 victims, as per the BBC. Dubbed as France’s “worst-ever” paedophile, Scouarnec was already in prison after being sentenced in 2020 to 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting four children, including his nieces. He remained on trial since late February, resulting in shocking testimonies from dozens of his victims. At a time when the trial has been sparking major reactions, with many furious over how Scouarnec got away with the abuse for over a decade, here’s a brief backstory for the former doctor.
Who Is Joel Le Scouarnec?
At the heart of the much-publicised case is Joel Le Scouarnec, the 74-year-old retired surgeon who once worked in France’s Brittany. Born in Paris, Scouarnec qualified as a surgeon at a medical facility in Nantes in 1983. In 1994, he was hired at a private clinic, following which he went on to work across a dozen hospitals in the west of France.
It was eventually in 2017 that the surgeon caught the attention of the French authorities after a six-year-old neighbour in Jonzac reported about “a man with a crown of white hair” exposing himself and sexually touching her through a broken garden fence. This led to the beginning of an investigation that uncovered a horror that no one ever imagined.
The authorities discovered multiple hard drives containing over 3 lakh pictures and videos of child sexual abuse, as well as notebooks with details of the alleged abuse towards his child patients. The police also discovered a collection of dolls, some life-sized, under the floorboards.
“I am a paedophile and I always will be,” one of the posts in the notebooks read.
Among the many victims, one of the most shocking revelations came after Scouarnec confessed to sexually abusing the daughter of his eldest son. “I acknowledge acts of sexual abuse against my granddaughter,” he said in the court, as per France24.
During the testimony, his eldest son recalled having a happy childhood, saying that his father was always busy with his medical practice, Noting that he grew up in a family where a lot of things were not discussed, the son shared that he learned only a few months before his father’s arrest in 2017. His mother, Marie-France, who divorced Scouarnec in 2023, had never told him about the crimes.
It was in May 2017 when the son got to know the truth from his father, only to later learn from his cousins that his father had abused them as children. Around the same time, his 42-year-old brother also testified in court, claiming that he had been raped and sexually abused by his grandfather—Scouarnec’s father—when he was between 5 and 10 years old.
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