French ex-surgeon on trial for alleged sexual assault of 299 people
A former French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 people, mostly children.
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A former French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 people, mostly children.
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00:00Former French surgeon Joël Lascuarnac is on trial for the alleged rape or sexual abuse
00:07of hundreds of victims.
00:09He's accused of sexually assaulting 299 people who were his patients, most of them children,
00:15between the years of 1989 and 2014.
00:20The 74-year-old does not deny committing the heinous acts, but says he doesn't have memory
00:24of committing every one of the cases he's accused of.
00:28But his victims are ready for justice to be served.
00:44The case will span four months and comes shortly after the highly publicized rape case of Giselle
00:49Pellicot.
00:50If convicted, Lascuarnac faces up to 20 years in prison.
00:54He is already serving a separate 15-year sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting
00:59and raping children in 2020.