Victims of paedophile French surgeon Joël le Scouarnec suffer from 'traumatic amnesia', says Muriel Salmona, a psychologist and president of the association Mémoire Traumatique. She says victims must be treated within 12 hours of the attack, otherwise "the traumatic memory will persist for weeks, months, years, decades, with the unconscious memory of what happened and the traumatic reaction, the traumatic shock that accompanied it". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES