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Estelle Nilsson-Julien

French court sentences ex-surgeon to 20 years in prison in country's largest sex abuse trial

Former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec was handed a 20-year sentence on Wednesday, after being found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting 299 children, over a 25-year period which spanned from 1989 to 2014.

Judges followed the public prosecutor's recommendations, sentencing Le Scouarnec to France's maximum jail term for aggravated rape after a three-month trial.

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