Victims in French Le Scouarnec child abuse trial shocked at public indifference
www.bbc.com
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.

  • alucard (they/them)@feddit.orgEnglish
    132·
    5 days ago

    Absolutely terrible and disgusting. All rapists should get a life sentence, full stop. The damage they do sticks with the victims for their whole lives, it robs them of a normal life.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      16·
      5 days ago

      Keep in mind that giving out the highest possible sentences to crimes that could be worse (like murder) essentially gives someone that’s committing the lesser crime (rape in this case) free range to commit any worse crimes because the sentence can’t be worse anyway.

      If someone is fucked up enough to rape someone, chances are that they will see it as a positive that they can kill the victim and leave behind no living witnesses and without risking a worse punishment.

      Even if rapists won’t kill anyone, they might still be less likely to restrain themselves to cause additional harm to the victim.

      • p_kanarinac@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        4·
        4 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
            4·
            4 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.

      • alucard (they/them)@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I’m not talking about people who didn’t rape but were accused of it. I’m talking about actual rapists. Funny how quick people are to defend rapists.

      • werty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        4 days ago

        Rape convictions are already almost impossible, the bar couldn’t be any higher. All your comment does is remind victims, once again, that false accusations are the real problem.

          • werty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            31·
            4 days ago

            Citation needed. And enough with the pretence that it ruins everyones lives. The US elected an accused and adjudicated rapist so that’s a staight up lie.

              • werty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                4 days ago

                Can you point out the part in that dataset that mentions false accusations? A search turned up nothing.

                ETA:

                Few jurisdictions have a distinct classification of false accusation, resulting in these cases being combined with other types of cases (e.g., where the accuser did not physically resist the suspect or sustain injuries) under headings such as “unfounded” or “unproved”. There are many reasons other than falsity that can result in a rape case being closed as unfounded or unproven.[18][19]

                Do you have any data regarding proven false allegations? Unfounded or unproven does not mean false.