Victims in landmark child abuse trial ask why France doesn't want to know
Victims in landmark child abuse trial ask why France doesn't want to know
Victims in French Le Scouarnec child abuse trial shocked at public indifference
cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/26913983
Comparisons were quickly made with - and expectations tied to - last year's Pelicot mass rape trial in southern France and the massive global attention it garnered.
Instead, the trial of France's most prolific known paedophile, Joel Le Scouarnec - a retired surgeon who has admitted in court to raping or sexually assaulting 299 people, almost all of them children - is coming to an end this Wednesday amid widespread frustration.
"I'm exhausted. I'm angry. Right now, I don't have much hope. Society seems totally indifferent. It's frightening to think [the rapes] could happen again," one of Le Scouarnec's victims, Manon Lemoine, 36, told the BBC.