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French surgeon gets 15-year jail in massive pedophilia case

by Nicolas Vaux-Montagny
| December 3, 2020 3:09 PM

LYON, France (AP) — A French retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing over 300 young children over decades – primarily his patients in their hospital rooms — has been sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison in the first trial of what may be the largest-ever pedophilia case in the country.

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