Former surgeon faces 20 years in prison as France’s largest child sexual abuse trial comes to an end
Judgment in The biggest abuse of the child in France It is scheduled to be delivered on Wednesday, which leads to the end of the declared trial for a period of three months.
former Surgeon Joel Lu Skoark74, imprisonment for up to 20 years on charges of sexual assault on 299 victims over three decades, most of them girls and boys who have been 11 years old. Many were attacked while they were under the effects of anesthesia or recovered from surgery.
If your shirts, he is the father of three children, He confessed to committing “ugly verbs” During the trial in the northwestern town of Va van in the British region, where he confessed to many, but not all of his concern.
His penalty will continue simultaneously with 15 years after his conviction in 2020, to rape a young and three others’ neighbor when they were children.
After the lawyers of some of the victims complained that he could be released by 2030 if he was taken before the trial and the eligibility of the conditional release in mind, the prosecution made a rare request to be held in a treatment center under supervision even if he was released.
Many victims said that they do not remember their attack, but the police managed to build a case against Lu Skoark because it was a mismanagement of treatment accurately in a digital diary.
Hundreds of witnesses have witnessed the trial, including my nephew, Lu Skoark and the friend of the family. Now in the 1940s, both of them said that he assaulted them in the early eighties. However, the French law was not allowed to try the alleged ill -treatment because it happened a long time ago.
In France, it is illegal for an adult to have sex with a minor less than 15 years old, although children’s defenders say that many adults have never been shipped.
The case tightened the highlight of the French medical system, which allowed Lu Skorakin to continue to work despite many warning signs, Including the 2005 conviction To own pictures that depict the abuse of children.
Lawyers told some of the victims that the local doctor who was respected had to be stripped of his medical privileges after this case. Instead, Le Scouarnec has worked in nine general hospitals and private clinics in five regions of France, where they specialize in appetite, abdominal surgery and gynecology.
Victims advocates also hope that the case will raise a closer look at what they call in the pursuit of child abuse, especially when doctors – who suffer from a lack of many areas – are accused of misconduct.
“There were 30 years warnings,” said Francesca Sata, a lawyer who represented 10 victims and families previously, adding: “This man benefited from the opening system for him to get his own fishing land.”
During the trial, many victims have seen the procedures through a video link in a seat hall of 450 seats, a short distance from the court, which was very small to take the number of people who wanted to see the case revealed. Two other rooms to send at the former Law Faculty of Trial to the media and spectators.
