With 299 victims over 25 years, why wasn’t serial rapist Joel Le Scouarnec stopped sooner? Closing arguments in the trial of the 74-year old surgeon in the westen French city of Vannes. We’ll ask about a man convicted of purchasing paedophile porn online two decades ago and yet investigators failed to uncover worse crimes and the medical board allowed him to continue to practice. We’ll ask about the case and the context. France’s largest-ever sex abuse trial concludes as the nation discovers decades of abuse at the Betarrame Catholic school in the southwest, a school attended by the children of the current prime minister, François Bayrou whose wife worked at the school. He insistently denies knowing at the time. At what point does it become a cover-up and when does deference cross a line in a nation where children are taught to obey authority figures? Most important are the victims. On the stand, Joel Le Scouarnec eventually confessed. But to plaintiffs, his answers sounded mechanical. Why is it so often the victims who feel the shame? Two of them of them comittted suicide. How to ovecome that shame and find closure?
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