Joël Le Scouarnec, now 74, was convicted in 2005 of accessing child-porn websites. Le Scouarnec, a gastric surgeon, paid for child porn on a dark-web Russian site, an international FBI investigation found. He was arrested and received a four-month suspended sentence — but he was allowed to continue his professional practice because, at the time, his hospital was understaffed. So began a life of impunity.
In 2006, Le Scouarnec was reported by a colleague to l’Ordre des médicins, a professional network of doctors. The Ministry of Health was informed of the report and of Le Scouarnec’s criminal record, and it did nothing. When Le Scouarnec transferred hospitals in 2008 to the Jonzac Hospital, he notified the hospital director of his 2005 conviction. The director did nothing.
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