French surgeon on trial kept detailed handwritten notes of molesting hundreds

[VanMcVan]

A 74 year old doctor named Joël Le Scouarnec kept several notebooks of detailed, lurid descriptions of sexual acts he performed on his child patients. The older ones were usually sedated for abdominal surgery, but he was able to get away with more with the younger ones in the recovery room. He practiced at different facilities for 25 years until 2014, recording details of 299 encounters. He even got busted for CP, served a "four month suspended sentence", and then went right back to work for 10 more years. His notebooks weren't discovered until he got busted in 2017 for messing around with a 6 year old neighbor girl, two 4 year old nieces, and a 4 year old patient. Along with his notes, his other collections are too vast to try to summarize here.

The Guardian has an Onion site, so I hope this link is ok to post:
https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion/society/2025/feb/22/my-paedophile-letters-french-surgeon-to-stand-trial-accused-of-abusing-299-patients-mostly-children

Here is part of the article:

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.

"There was my family name, my first name, age, the address of my parents, everything he did and how he felt. It was disgusting. The word 'raped' was hard enough, but here were these obscene phrases of what happened."

Le Scouarnec, now 74, will appear in court on Monday accused of the rape or sexual abuse of 299 patients – 158 male and 141 female and the majority under the age of 15 – while they were under anaesthetic or recovering from operations between 1989 and 2014. The average age of his alleged victims was 11.

The surgeon, who entitled one document "my paedophile letters", denies penetration with his penis. Under French law, rape is an act of sexual penetration by any body part or object.

This case brings up a frequent topic on this board, revictimization. In the story above, Marie had no idea she had been "raped" (but not with a penis) by the good doctor. She likened the experience to discovering she had cancer. Until les gendarmes arrived, though, she was a 38 year old mother of three with no idea she was somehow damaged by something that happened when she was fully unconscious.

Another unknowing participant was a boy, 10 years old at the time. He found out what happened at 22. He killed himself at 24. Who is really at fault for breaking his world?

Back to those notebooks. As a committed non-contact pedo, but still a pedo, this report is fascinating. 299 true stories of what he did, who he did it to, and how he felt doing it? Damn! He shouldn't have done it, but since he did, shouldn't we get at least a little peek at those notes? It turns out that someone did. A lucky reporter named Hugo Lemonier got to read all the notes, do interviews, and write a book. Unfortunately, I'm sure I'll never see that book. Ordering that from Amazon would feel like just calling the FBI directly.

[TooLittleTime]

Yes, that would be on my reading list, but...

Shit dude. Digitize and encrypt that shit.

Sadly, due to social stigma, why the hell contact people he did that to when they could not be helpful in any way with the prosecution? That is actually evil.

[zergrush111]

Yes, that would be on my reading list, but...

Shit dude. Digitize and encrypt that shit.

Sadly, due to social stigma, why the hell contact people he did that to when they could not be helpful in any way with the prosecution? That is actually evil.

I wonder how it works in france but maybe the thought is they could be a part of a lawsuit for his estate. Or that obviously they are experiencing some sort of trauma they just dont know it yet.

This story though is a good example on why I think knocking out the kid today is legit the best way to practice pedophilia even though its super controversial and not as fulfilling. It is the safest way of doing it. Because as its been talked about over and over on here the biggest problem is society telling the kid, over and over, they are a victim damaged and meant for hell. Or that they will send someone they love to prison, and destroy their family. How is that going to happen if the kid doesn't remember it fully or at all? This guy could have got away with all of this, I mean he was 74, if he just didn't try to fuck with kids while they were awake, theres a very high chance he would have died, got away with it, and the diary burned with his stuff. This whole arrest started with him messing around with multiple children when he had over 200+ bodies behind him. He got away with it nearly 300 times, and then the moment he tried to mess with a couple awake kids, he got slammed.

Im betting because of his age thats why it wasnt digitized or encrypted. Its so so rare to find an older guy who knows what they are doing with tech. Like ive talked to dudes who had cp unencrypted on their work computers just out in the open because they think if they don't let anyone on the laptop they have nothing to worry about. Or people who have cp on their phone that backups to their google drive or icloud then talk about, casually, how they got banned randomly. As if there isnt going to be a visit from the cops in the next couple months. Both the super young and super old have a bad track record with tech security.

I do want to read this if it is in english but i have a feeling its not one to one translated, especially with there now being named, still alive victims here. Like imagine you are dealing with the stress of learning this and then you learn your abusers book is published online, with detailed descriptions on what they did to your body as a child. Just imagine reading that.

I feel like if it was you could easily argue you are just into shocking and dark books like ones written by serial killers.

[TooLittleTime]

I get your argument about drugged vs. live sexual interaction. Though it highlights the 'it is only sexual' aspect of the desire. But I know that is the case for many people.

But, giving drugs to a child is very risky. One mis-dose and your talking murder. And many drugs are not a good at 'knocking out' as people think. It is just so risky.

[zergrush111]

I get your argument about drugged vs. live sexual interaction. Though it highlights the 'it is only sexual' aspect of the desire. But I know that is the case for many people.

But, giving drugs to a child is very risky. One mis-dose and your talking murder. And many drugs are not a good at 'knocking out' as people think. It is just so risky.

Agree on all fronts.