Twenty years ago, Joël Le Scouarnec received a four-month suspended prison sentence for possessing child pornography.
Despite his conviction, the surgeon was allowed to continue treating children for more than a decade without any safeguarding measures put in place.
That conviction in 2005 should have been seen as a warning, but multiple French hospitals and medical centres continued to allow the convicted paedophile to have unrestricted access to children, including those under anaesthetic.
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