The notebooks of a pedophile surgeon
Joël Le Scouarnec described the 299 rapes or sexual assaults he committed over 24 years in detail and stored his notes away as if they were patient files. Given what appears to be a culture of silence in the family around his abuse, the horror of his accounts provides the indisputable evidence to put him behind bars for a very long time
On May 2, 2017 at 8:45 a.m., police officers armed with a warrant stormed a terraced house in Jonzac, the small town in southwestern France where surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec lived. The forced entry was in response to a complaint from a six-year-old neighbor who alleged he had exposed himself to her. But the French police had long suspected that Le Scouarnec, now 74, was a dangerous pedophile who had used his status as a doctor to abuse hundreds of minors.
