Victims in French Le Scouarnec child abuse trial shocked at public indifference
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The trial of France's most prolific known paedophile comes to an end this week amid widespread frustration.

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/26913983

Comparisons were quickly made with - and expectations tied to - last year’s Pelicot mass rape trial in southern France and the massive global attention it garnered.

Instead, the trial of France’s most prolific known paedophile, Joel Le Scouarnec - a retired surgeon who has admitted in court to raping or sexually assaulting 299 people, almost all of them children - is coming to an end this Wednesday amid widespread frustration.

“I’m exhausted. I’m angry. Right now, I don’t have much hope. Society seems totally indifferent. It’s frightening to think [the rapes] could happen again,” one of Le Scouarnec’s victims, Manon Lemoine, 36, told the BBC.

  • p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    People didn’t get their justice for well known rapes during war, and here you are acting like prisons are full of people falsely acused of it. Meanwhile, women walk around Vukovar seeing their rapists walk around like nothing happened.

    Btw, we regularly have people get shorter or no sentenced for rapists who were in wars. Victims never get justice.

      • p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        Not what I was going for, I’m just very pissed of about terrible “justice” system in the Balkans. Nobody does anything about minor crimes, let alone something big. Croatia is a corrupt shithole, that’s about it. Like most of the world.