# A former surgeon is to go on trial in France today charged with raping or sexually assaulting hundreds of patients, most of them children. Joel Le Scouarnec is already in jail after a court in 2020 found the 74-year old guilty of abusing four children. He now faces allegations that he also assaulted or raped 299 patients, many while waking up from anaesthetic or during post-op checkups, between 1989 and 2014. In total, 256 of the 299 victims were under 15, with the youngest aged one and the oldest aged 70.
Former surgeon on trial in France for raping or sexually assaulting hundreds of patients