Le Scouarnec’s trial came as activists continue to push to dismantle taboos that have long surrounded sexual abuse in France.

The verdict in France's largest-ever child sexual abuse case is set to be delivered Wednesday, bringing the landmark ...

Joël Le Scouarnec, the former surgeon at the center of France’s largest-ever child sexual abuse case, was handed a maximum ...

Ms Lemoine and some 50 other victims, stung by an apparent lack of public interest in the trial, have formed their own ...

Tara Cobham and Rachel Clun report on the case of Joel Le Scouarnec, believed to be France's worst-ever paedophile. He abused ...

Joel Le Scouarnec was standing trial over three decades of violence against child patients, some of whom were unconscious at ...

Instead, the trial of France's most prolific known paedophile ... organised silence" regarding child abuse. She spoke of a patriarchal society in which men in respected positions like medicine ...

The new trial in Brittany, western France, began in February and has ... been convicted in 2005 for possessing and importing child sexual abuse material and sentenced to four months of suspended ...