Former French surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec faces trial for alleged sexual abuse of over 250 young patients over decades.

A former French surgeon, Joel Le Scouarnec, faces trial over allegations of abusing hundreds of his young patients while they were under anesthesia from 1989 to 2014. Despite an FBI warning, Le Scouarnec, who has been in jail since 2017, is accused of over 100 rapes and 150 sexual assaults. He denies wrongdoing, claiming his diaries detailing the assaults were just fantasies. The case raises questions about whether he was protected by colleagues and hospital management.

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