News24 | French Doctor Labelled ‘Atomic Bomb of Paedophilia’ Jailed for 20 Years for Child Sex Abuse

News24 | French doctor labelled ‘atomic bomb of paedophilia’ jailed for 20 years for child sex abuse

A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, but victims, some in tears, expressed disappointment with the verdict.

French court sentences surgeon, ‘an atomic bomb of paedophilia’, to max 20 years for sexually abusing 299 kids

VANNES (France), May 29 — A French court on Wednesday gave the maximum 20-year jail term to a surgeon who admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, most of them children, but victims, some in tears, expressed disappointment with the verdict. The three-month trial of Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has brought to light the extent of his crimes and the suffering of his victims but also raised questions about why more was not done sooner to stop him. …

The retired surgeon sexually abused hundreds of patients, with the youngest victim allegedly one and the oldest 70 years old.

French surgeon sentenced to 20 years for abusing hundreds of children over two decades

He is one of the most prolific convicted sex predators in France’s history.

France's 'most prolific paedophile' who abused hundreds of patients jailed

France's most prolific known paedophile - a retired surgeon - has today been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping scores of children over three decades.

In spite of his 96 years of age, the former doctor Ildebert Huard cannot escape prison for having sexually assaulted 5 women. Despite his very advanced age, the former doctor Ildebert Huard has been dismissed on appeal. He cannot escape prison for having assaulted the five vulnerable women admitted to his therapy home in Lac-Saint-Charles. The founder of Villa Ignatia, whose 96th anniversary it was recently, will surrender to the prison authorit…