A French court has handed down a 20-year prison sentence to former surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec after finding him guilty of raping and sexually assaulting 299 people, with the majority being children, during his medical career spanning from 1989 to 2014.
According to The Washington Post, the trial, which began in February in Vannes, northwestern France, is considered the country’s largest child abuse case to date. Most of the victims were minors with an average age of 11 at the time of the crimes, according to French media reports.
