Paris — There was shock in the courtroom in western France on Friday as former doctor Joel Le Scouarnec admitted without any solicitation that he had sexually abused his own granddaughter.

The assault happened in the early 1990s. The woman, who has not been named as she was a mere child at the time of the assault ...

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What they discovered in his home, in a small town in western France, went well beyond anything to do with the girl’s case. Rooms were cluttered with boxes packed with sex toys and more than 20 ...