French Surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec Sentenced to 20 Years in Largest Child Abuse Case in Nation’s History

A French court sentences former surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec to 20 years in prison for the sexual abuse of nearly 300 minors, marking the conclusion of what is widely considered the largest child sexual abuse case in France’s modern history. The verdict is delivered in Vannes, Brittany, where Le Scouarnec, now 73, admits to the staggering scale of his crimes over a career that spanned more than three decades.

The court convicts Le Scouarnec of sexually assaulting 299 victims, most of them children as young as four and with. . .