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French paedophile surgeon who abused hundreds sentenced to 20 years in jail

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20 years for 299 victims. That's just over three weeks per victim.
Although...
Le Scouarnec, 74, has been dubbed France's most prolific paedophile. He is already in jail after being sentenced in 2020 to 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting four children, including two of his nieces.
He'll probably die in jail, so .. there's that.
- In most western democracies sentences are served in parallel, not consecutively. The US is one of a few crazy places where people get sentences like 3.000+ years, or 161 life sentences.
- I always thought repeated offenses call for harsher sentences, not milder, but I guess here we are now.
  
  20 years is the maximum sentence in France
  
  If absolutely is not. 30 years is possible, and en perpétuité (forever) in very rare cases.
  
  It depends on the offense. Not all offenses have the same maximum.
  
  Does France have the concept of a "violent offender" or medical detention? You basically hold someone indefinitely, routinely assessing if they can be released.
  
  Apparently: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9tention_de_s%C3%BBret%C3%A9_en_France
  In French criminal law, “rétention de sûreté” is a procedure for placing prisoners who have served their sentence, but who present a very high risk of reoffending because they generally suffer from a serious personality disorder, in a socio-medico-judicial security center. This measure is limited to convictions for the most serious crimes, in particular sex crimes, and must be expressly provided for in the sentencing decision
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  I couldn't find an English source, even the English wiki article on preventive detention doesn't list France.
  
  Thanks. The incongruity between en and fr Wikipedia is sometimes frustrating.
  
  The French legal system probably doesn't stack individual sentences and go "I sentence you to a combined twenty-eight thousand years in prison" like they do in the US.
- All I know about French prisons I learned from reading Catch Me If You Can. If that's any sort of accurate, he's gonna have a bad time.
  
  Abagnale is a bit of an unreliable witness. He blatantly overstates his "exploits".
- And not from old age

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