The lawyer who defended ‘the worst mass paedophile who has ever lived’ has died in an apparent suicide, a prosecutor has said.
Maxime Tessier, 34, defended Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, dubbed ‘the devil in a white coat’ who raped tons of of patients under the age of 15 between 1989 and 2014.
They’re made up of 158 men and 141 women who had a mean age of 11 after they were allegedly attacked in hospitals across the country.
Lawyer Maxime has since been found dead, with chief prosecutor Frederic Teillet, from the western French city of Rennes, saying: ‘Every part points to suicide.’
Maxime was one in every of two lawyers who defended the rapist, who is taken into account one of the notorious in criminal history.
His associate Catherine Glon said he ‘had a really high regard for justice and was subsequently very demanding towards himself’.
Le Scouarnec normally attacked his victims, with the youngest being just 4, while they were under the results of anaesthesia.
He was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but lots of his victims said he ought to be jailed for longer.
Thomas Delaby, a barrister representing one in every of his victims, described Le Scouarnec as an ‘atomic bomb of paedophilia’.
He added: ‘Your victims won’t ever forgive you.’
He was placed on trial this 12 months after police found evidence, including child sized sex dolls chained up in his home and hundreds of kid abuse images.
Back in 2005, he was handed a suspended four-month prison sentence for possessing child pornography, but managed to secure a job as a surgeon at a public hospital in Quimperle, western France, the next 12 months.
He continued to work in public hospitals until his re-arrest 12 years in a while suspicion of raping his six-year-old neighbour.
He abused young patients across 10 hospitals and clinics over the span of 25 years.
She told her parents that ‘the person with a crown of white hair’ had exposed himself and sexually touched her through a broken garden fence.
Police searched his home, uncovering a cache of dolls, wigs and 300,000 pictures and 650 paedophilic, zoophilic and scatological videos.
Notebooks where Le Scouarnec detailed his sexual assaults on scores of patients were also found.
In a single handwritten note hidden under a mattress, the doctor is alleged to have written: ‘I’m a paedophile and I at all times will likely be.’
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