7 h. ago ‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 patients, mostly children

Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against himWhen two gendarmes knocked on her door in 2019, Marie had no idea that she was about to find herself at the dark heart of one of the world’s biggest child abuse cases.The French mother of three, now 38, was shocked when the officers told her she had been the victim of Joël Le Scouarnec, a surgeon and an alleged serial paedophile accused of raping and sexually abusing hundreds of children. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago ‘My paedophile letters’: French surgeon to stand trial accused of abusing 299 child patients

Joël Le Scouarnec’s ‘black books’ of handwritten notes in which alleged sexual abuse was recorded are at the heart of case against himWhen two gendarmes knocked on her door in 2019, Marie had no idea that she was about to find herself at the dark heart of one of the world’s biggest child abuse cases.The French mother of three, now 38, was shocked when the officers told her she had been the victim of Joël Le Scouarnec, a surgeon and an alleged serial paedophile accused of raping and sexually abusing hundreds of children. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Joël Le Scouarnec: France braced for horror details in largest

A former surgeon accused of raping or sexual abusing 299 people, mostly children

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17 h. ago Meet the 5 top court justices in Brazil who could decide the future of former President Bolsonaro

Five of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices will decide in the next three weeks whether former President Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others charged by the country’s prosecutor-general with attempting a coup will stand trial

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51 h. ago Mother of teenage soldier 'hounded to her death' by superiors demands police investigation as she accuses Army of 'covering up' abuse before her suicide

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found hanging in her room at Larkhill Camp near Salisbury in Wiltshire on December 15, 2021.

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59 h. ago Revealed: US firm running Guantánamo migrant jail accused over rights abuses

Corporate conglomerate Akima subject of critical audits and complaints over detainee treatment at facilities in USA corporate conglomerate now running the US government’s immigration detention center at the Guantánamo Bay naval base on a lucrative contract has been the subject of critical audits and a civil rights complaint over conditions at three other migrant lockups it has run within the US, documents reviewed by the Guardian show.In one example, a federal audit report on a migrant facility run by the company in Miami found multiple incidents of alleged “inappropriate use of force” – including guards pepper-spraying a man in solitary confinement even though he posed no threat to them, the report said. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Martial law was Yoon Suk Yeol’s answer to ‘legislative dictatorship’, insurrection trial hears

Lawyers for impeached South Korean president who caused chaos argue that court has no jurisdiction to put him on trial for ‘act of governance’Lawyers for Yoon Suk Yeol have told a court in Seoul that the impeached president declared martial law in late 2024 to prevent the country becoming a “legislative dictatorship” controlled by his political opponents.The claim came as Yoon became the first South Korean president to stand trial in a criminal case, brought over his short-lived declaration of martial law in early December. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Joel Le Scouarnec: Surgeon accused of sexually abusing 299 patients over 25 years to stand trial

Prosecutors say Joel Le Scouarnec abused and raped hundreds of people, most of whom were children, over a 25-year period

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