The sexual abuse of the French surgeon was “atomic bomb” for the family, says the son of the son

Vannes, France:

Two sons of Joel Le Scuarnec, a former French surgeon in the process for the alleged attack or rape of 299 patients, said a court of father on Tuesday, the case of their father took place in the family.

Most of the victims of them Scouarnec were children who are believed to be abused while waking up from the anesthetic or during post-ops, to a dozen hospitals between 1989 and 2014.

A total of 256 of them were under 15, with the youngest and oldest 70.

The case caused ultraj and revulsion in a France still traumatized by the revelations of the recent trial of Dominique Pelicot, who was convicted of registering dozens of foreigners to rape his strongly seduced wife.

He was also a living nightmare for Le Te Scouarnec family, said the sons of the Morbihan Criminal Court in western France.

“His perversion has exploded like an atomic bomb in our family,” said Lezuarnec’s son, 42 years old.

“I don’t know where that perversion came from. I don’t even understand it.”

Comparing his father to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”-a comparison that his mother, the ex-wife of Le Scouarnec, used and told the court that he still strives to reconcile the alleged crimes with the father’s image on who he knew.

“I have these pictures in my head now and I will have them for the rest of my life,” he said.

The 42 -year -old told the court that he was himself raped and sexually abused by his grandfather, his father, from five to 10 years old.

Asked if they were Scouarnec, 74 years old, he was also abused by his own father, he said: “I think so, but he always told me it was not.”

Things “unspoken”

They Scornec is already in prison, after being found guilty in 2020 that he abused four children, including two of his granddaughters.

His youngest son, 37 years ago and an electrician, told the court that he remembered that he grew up in a “normal family”, but in which some things were left “unspoken”.

“I have very good memories of my father,” he added, saying that he explained why he cut off all the contact. “I wanted to keep that image about him,” he said, adding that he did not think he was abused by his father.

But, with his father, looking at the accused bench, he said he became “a little paranoid” in the light of subsequent disclosures, saying to the court: “I never leave my son inanimate.”

They scoured them He took the position on Monday on the day of opening the process, admitting that he did “hideous things”.

A commission created by the government pregnant with the protection of children victims of sexual abuses, called CIIVIS, said the first statements that Scouarnec abused by children from their own family should have been “reported” to prevent additional damages.

He scoured them in his journals in 1996: “She knows I am a pedophile”, an apparent reference to her wife, who appeared in court on Tuesday, but is about to testify on Wednesday.

She reached the court wearing a black hood, black gloves and a surgical mask that hid it largely.

In 2005, a court pronounced them to them a sentence suspended for four months for holding sexual abusive images with children.

But his ex -wife claimed to be in the dark.

Earlier this month, she told the Ouest France Regional newspaper that she had no idea about her “predilections” and discovered the truth only after being arrested in 2017.

“I wondered how I could miss him completely. It’s a terrible betrayal of mine and my children,” she said.

He scoured them meticulously documented his crimes, noting the names, ages and addresses of his victims and the nature of abuse.

The former surgeon practiced for decades until retirement, despite the 2005 conviction and colleagues who called his behavior.

Investigators discovered only his journals documenting years of abuse against patients, after a six -year -old girl in 2017 was accused of rape.

Her case was included in the 2020 process.

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