A retired French surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of young patients, many of them children, over more than two decades received a 20-year jail sentence on Wednesday (May 298), in France's worst ever child abuse case to go to trial.
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00:00A retired French surgeon was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of raping and sexually assaulting nearly 300 children over more than two decades, marking one of the worst child abuse cases ever tried in France.
00:18Joel Lesquarnek, who worked in hospitals across Western France, was found guilty of abusing 299 victims, many of them children under anesthesia, over a 25-year period.
00:30Presiding judge Aude Buresi, her voice at times breaking with emotion, condemned Lesquarnek for exploiting his victims when they were most vulnerable.
00:48The trial has shocked the nation and raised serious questions about the failures with the
01:18within France's public health care system that allowed his crimes to go undetected for so long.
01:2320 years is less. 20 years is less than the number of victims we have in this trial.
01:29It is time for the texts to change and that we may have a more adaptable pain to the exceptional side of this trial, and that's the regret we have today.
01:42But we couldn't do beyond the texts, in any way.
01:46Lesquarnek is already serving a 15-year prison sentence handed down in 2020 for raping and assaulting a child neighbor, his two nieces, and a four-year-old patient.
01:57In addition to the prison sentence, the court has permanently banned him from practicing medicine or having contact with minors,
02:04and ordered that he be placed on France's National Sex Offenders Registry.
02:09All right.