{"id":138751,"date":"2025-05-28T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/138751\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:41:09","slug":"former-surgeon-jailed-for-20-years-in-france-for-raping-299-children-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/138751\/","title":{"rendered":"Former surgeon jailed for 20 years in France for raping 299 children \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 74-year-old former surgeon who raped hundreds of victims over more than two decades has been given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison by a French court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joel Le Scouarnec was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting 299 children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Le Scouarnec is already serving a 15-year prison sentence from 2020 for the rape and sexual assault of four children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The new trial in Brittany, western France, began in February and laid bare a pattern of abuse between 1989 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/world\/turkeys-erdogan-appoints-legal-team-to-draft-new-constitution-KSSEGRYX3NLOFENRLELOSXQEQM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Turkey&#x2019;s Erdogan appoints legal team to draft new constitution\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/I5JILTF6DVNGJPOWAPPN2JME54.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/world\/whistleblower-who-exposed-war-crime-allegations-loses-bid-to-reduce-prison-time-HTPHOCQIKNKPHJ53LUKYW6FIJM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Whistleblower who exposed war crime allegations loses bid to reduce prison time\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/5W67JDX7WFL2THRI3W4PAFI2GE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Most of the victims were unconscious or sedated hospital patients at the time of the assaults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The average age was 11. Among the victims were 158 boys and 141 girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 74-year-old former surgeon who raped hundreds of victims over more than two decades has been given the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[60438,2000,299,36,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-138751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-content-warning","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-international"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114585749792973008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}