When police in western France searched surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec's home after he raped his 6-year-old neighbour in 2017, they found a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography.

A surgeon in France is alleged to have sexually abused 299 children. His victims were on average eleven years old. There are parallels between this

A former surgeon goes on trial later this month charged with raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 former patients, most of them children and many of them unconscious at the time.

On February 24, French surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec will go on trial for raping and abusing hundreds of young patients in France's biggest ever child sex abuse case. France is still reeling from the shock of the Dominique Pelicot case, in which he and fifty other men were convicted of raping his wife. Lucy Fielder reports.