Joël Le Scouarnec is questioned by his family about what prompted him to crime, while he is accused of sexual assault on 300 former patients.
For the family, it is always misunderstanding. How can a brother, an uncle, a father, a surgeon … commit rape and abuse on 299 victims? “I need to know why you got there,” begs Annie, sister of Joël Le Scouarnec, on the fourth day of her trial in Vannes. “Did our Father had gestures on you, or someone we know, or that we don’t know? Tell me the truth, I need to know.”
A question linked to the family context, because among scouarnec, incest and rapes on minors are everywhere. Annie, now 72 years old, suffered sexual violence at 14 from her boyfriend at the time and one of his friends, relates Franceinfo. The accused’s father, Joseph Le Scouarnec, was himself a victim of assaults by a priest or a man working for his parents, completes the media.
The Patriarch of Le Scouarnec was himself the attacker of the cadet of the sons of the man judged by pedophilia. The surgeon’s children indeed said that their father never attacked them, unlike their grandfather, who would have subjected them to “blowjobs, touching and exhibitions” until the age of 9 or 10 reports Closer.
“I still don’t know”
But Joël Le Scouarnec is formal: he claims to have “never suffered any assault on the part of anyone”, including his father. The accused, who claims his pedophilia, does not hide behind possible abuses of which he would have been the victim to try to explain his actions. “I still do not know” answers the former surgeon to the question of his sister on the motivations of his actions which he transcribed in detail in notebooks of which he admitted to being the author: “I have maintained myself very long with psychologists, for years, and I still do not know.” The man also apologized to his sister and his nieces for the violence he has committed: he has already been sentenced in 2020 to fifteen years in prison for sexual violence in four children, two nieces, a neighbor and a patient.
Joël Le Scouarnec, who is tried for sexual assault and aggravated rape on 299 patients who had an average of 11 years and faces twenty years in criminal imprisonment for these facts, “wishes to fully participate” and “give explanations” on his acts according to the declarations of his lawyer, Me Maxime Tessier on BFMTV. Explanations that have still not emerged after the first days of the trial, which must last four months.
The accused indeed admitted to being the author of the assigned aggressions of his digital diary. On Friday, February 28, Joël Le Scouarnec also admitted to having abuse on his granddaughter. “It is perhaps, no doubt, the last time my son sees because I heard his anger and his dismay. He knew how to express it. I respect this anger, she is founded. Yes, I admit that I have committed acts of sexual abuse on my granddaughter, on her daughter,” said the former surgeon at the helm.