The women took the stand in the trial of Joel Le Scouarnec, a former surgeon accused of raping or sexually assaulting hundreds of children who were his patients.

A former surgeon is set to stand trial in France for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims. Most of them were children who were his patients.

The trial of Joël Le Scouarnec, who is charged with the rape and sexual assault of 299 people in France over decades, is set to begin. The alleged victims’ average age was 11.

The son of a retired French surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients told a court on Tuesday that Joel Le Scouarnec was a good father - but that the crimes he is accused of are unforgivable.

A former surgeon goes on trial this month charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 former patients, most of them children and many of them unconscious at the time, over a quarter of a century across western France.

Two sons of Joel Le Scouarnec, a French former surgeon on trial for the alleged assault or rape of 299 patients, told a court Tuesday of the devastation their father's

Joël Le Scouarnec is not ‘an accused who is silent, casual, extremely aggressive in his remarks, but someone who, on the contrary, submits completely to the trial’, says his lawyer, Maxime Tessier, as the former surgeon acknowledges having ‘committed heinous acts’ on the first day of his trial before the Morbihan criminal court for the rape and sexual assault of nearly 300 patients,