The Gütersloh police published another rape lawsuit against the 42-year-old doctor on Monday.
The medic is on remand.
A doctor from
North Rhine-Westphalia
is on
remand.
The public prosecutor
and the
police are
investigating alleged rape.
Two
patients
had brought charges.
Gütersloh - It is the horror idea of every patient: a
doctor
abuses his position, exploits it violently, rapes a patient.
Exactly this horror seems to have become a reality in North Rhine-Westphalia, at the Gütersloh hospital.
Since mid-
December
, a sitting
42-year-old doctor
from
Oelde
in
custody
.
He is said to have offended a 36-year-old patient.
"The intensive
investigations
into this criminal case are still ongoing," said the authorities, according to the
afp
news agency,
after the arrest.
Now
another patient
brought charges
against the doctor from NRW.
According to a joint statement from the police and prosecutors, the woman reported a
sexual assault
from October.
Accordingly, there is a second criminal case on suspicion of rape.
As the
WDR
reports, the course of events should have been similar to the first case.
However, nothing is known about the exact circumstances of the crime.
The criminal proceedings are conducted by the
Gütersloh
criminal police
and directed by the
Bielefeld
public prosecutor's office
.
Help with sexual assault: options for those affected
After a crime one is often faced with the question: Where can I find help?
Whom can I contact?
There is now a digital contact point for this: The Federal Ministry of Justice bundles the important support and advice offers at https://t.co/Kl2K6393Hh.
#Victim protection
- Help hotline "Violence against women" (@Hilfetelefon) December 21, 2020
Unfortunately, such cases are not uncommon.
Again and again,
attacks from clinics and medical practices make
headlines.
A
shelter
and a
balance of power
are exploited here.
The power imbalance makes it difficult to address the issue of sexual harassment.
There are clear hierarchies in the hospital - between doctor and patient: inside but also internally, between doctors.
As early as 2018, a study by the
Charité University Medicine Berlin
drew attention to sexual harassment in clinics.
The study appeared in the journal
JAMA Internal Medicine
and interviewed hospital staff:
20 percent of
the 750 respondents said they had been sexually assaulted during their careers, 60 percent verbally.
BuzzFeed News is
currently researching
for the first time comprehensively on sexualised violence in medicine and would like to better understand how often there are attacks, who is affected and who is the perpetrator.
Of course,
sexual offenses are
not exclusive to the medical environment, but everywhere.
Many of those affected do not know who to turn to.
Facilities
such as the
violence protection outpatient
clinic at the Charité Berlin can advise and support those seeking help.
The
Federal
Ministry of
Justice
bundles all regional contact points and offers on hilfe-info.de.