VANNES (France), Feb 27 — The ex-wife of a French former surgeon on trial for allegedly assaulting or raping 299 patients insisted Wednesday that she “suspected nothing” of his crimes following ...

Retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial in the western city of Vannes since Monday in one of the country's largest child sex-abuse cases. A total of 256 of the victims were under ...

Retired surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial in the western city of Vannes since Monday in one of the country's largest child sex abuse cases. A total of 256 of the victims were under ...

Vannes (France) (AFP) – The ex-wife of a French former surgeon on trial for allegedly assaulting or raping 299 patients insisted Wednesday that she "suspected nothing" of his crimes following ...

Retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial in the western city of Vannes since Monday in one of the country's largest child sex-abuse cases. A total of 256 of the victims were under 15 ...

Retired surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, has been on trial in the western city of Vannes since Monday in one of the country's largest child sex abuse cases. Two hundred and fifty-six of the victims ...

Le Scouarnec is now standing a criminal trial at the Morbihan Criminal Court in Vannes. Thibaut Kurzawa, Le Scouarnec’s defence lawyer, said outside court: "He is waiting to be judged ...

"I've done hideous things," he told the court as proceedings began in Vannes. Listen to Story Former French surgeon on trial for sexually assaulting nearly 300 patients Most victims were children; ...

Investigators and the surgeon own notebooks described his alleged actions as a pattern of violence spanning over three decades. “I committed odious acts,” Joel Le Scouarnec told the court in Vannes.

Judge Aude Buresi declared the hearing in the western city of Vannes open as Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, took his place in the dock. "I've done hideous things," Le Scouarnec told the court.