“
I remember one night, when I felt a presence and flashes.
I could not wake up, while I said to myself 'wake up!'.
I didn't succeed and I thought 'maybe it's lightning'.
The next day, I asked my mother if there was a thunderstorm that night.
She told me no,
”testifies on FranceInfo the niece of Joël Le Scouarnec, one of the four victims of sexual assault for which the former surgeon was sentenced on December 3, 2020 to 15 years in prison.
The accused appealed, but he has also been indicted since October 2020 for rape and sexual assault committed on 312 other children.
Silent during the trial, she is fighting today so that the facts of "sexual assault" concerning her are reclassified as "rape", denouncing the omerta that reigned in her family, but also the breaches of justice.
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Aurélie * learned in 2017, during a call from the gendarmerie, that she was the victim of the touching of her uncle, like a cousin and her sister, whom she had always supported.
Everything then resurfaces.
Aurélie files a complaint and discovers, in 2019, the photos taken by Le Scouarnec when she was sleeping in her crib.
If Aurélie had, before this revelation, no memory of these attacks, she remembers however that her sister spoke openly about what she was undergoing in her family: “
It was not taboo.
We often spoke about it, in fact the word of the children was released.
It's just that parents are not always ready to hear,
”she explains to FranceInfo.
The niece of Joël Le Scouarnec especially points the finger at the behavior of the wife of the pedophile, who tried to cover up the affair: “
She clearly protected this man.
(...) Nothing should change, for its situation, for its image, for financial reasons surely too.
They protect each other.
She lied, when she could have protected a lot of children
”.
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For Aurélie, justice is just as guilty: in 2005, while Joël Le Scouarnec was sentenced to four months in prison for possession of child pornography images, the investigators did not dig any further.
Now 35 years old, Aurélie says she is outraged to see that her uncle was sentenced for acts of sexual assault concerning her, and not for rape, even though "
the photos and writings seized from the surgeon characterize a rape,
”according to the young woman's lawyer.
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