A retired surgeon from France accused of sexually abusing over 300 young children over decades, primarily his patients in their hospital rooms has been sentenced with 15 years jail term in the first trial of the country's largest-ever pedophilia case in the country. The trial this week in the western city of Saintes is about four people allegedly targeted by Joel Le Scouarnec, 70, two of his nieces, a young female neighbor, and a child who was hospitalised at age 4 in the establishment where he practiced. 

The surgeon has been found guilty of “rapes” and “sexual abuses,” Francesca Satta, the lawyer for the neighbor's family, told the news agency. His name will also be added to the database of sex offenders, she quoted. Le Scouarnec admitted in the trial that he had raped his nieces. He was charged in the month of October on accusations of sexually abusing a total of 312 people, mostly children at the time period between 1986 and 2014 in several establishments were he used to work. Prosecutors said they include almost as many female as male, with an average age of 11. 

No date for a second trial has been set yet. The first case was when his 6 year old neighbour told her mother that Le Scouarnec exposed himself and molested her across the fence between their properties. During a search at his home,  investigators uncovered more than 3,00,000 images of child and other pornography and extensive notebooks where the surgeon detailed about the sexual violence, next to the child name nature of the sexual acts inflicted, against both girls and boys from 1989 to 2017. He was already been sentenced in 2005 to a four-month suspended prison sentence for possession and importation of child pornographic images. 

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