If there hadn’t been this silence, then he’d have been banned from seeing children in 2004 and there would have been far fewer victims,” Mauricette Vinet, whose grandson Mathis was one of Le Scouarnec’s patients, told the Observer.
The French mother of three, now 38, was shocked when the officers told her she had been the victim of Joël Le Scouarnec, a surgeon and an alleged serial paedophile accused of raping and sexually abusing hundreds of children.
Francesca Satta, the lawyer representing Marie, the Vinet family and other alleged victims, has described Le Scouarnec as “extremely perverse” and a “monster” who used his workplace as a “hunting ground”.
Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against him.
Faced with the blank in Marie’s memory, the police showed her handwritten notes in Le Scouarnec’s “black books” from 1996, when she was 10 years old and he removed her appendix.
