I owe it to all these people and their loved ones to admit my actions and their consequences,” said Le Scouarnec, who has not yet submitted a formal plea. From 1986 to 2014, the former surgeon,

By Juliette Jabkhiro VANNES, France (Reuters) -A retired surgeon went on trial in western France on Monday accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anesthetic,

A former surgeon went on trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators and his own notebooks describe as a pattern of violence spanning over three decades.