Marie, 35, that they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he thought it was a prank. It wasn't.

A former surgeon is set to stand trial in France for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims. Most of them were children who were his patients.

The women took the stand in the trial of Joel Le Scouarnec, a former surgeon accused of raping or sexually assaulting hundreds of children who were his patients.