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Lille: three years suspended sentence against a doctor for sexual assault

2022-03-08T23:09:41.381Z


"Hand on the buttocks", "unsuitable breast palpation", "thumb on the clitoris": the prosecution requested three years in prison on Tuesday, suspended and five years...


"

Hand on the buttocks

", "

inappropriate breast palpation

", "

thumb on the clitoris

": the prosecution requested on Tuesday three years in prison suspended and five years of prohibition to practice against a general practitioner tried for sexual assaults on four patients.

The practitioner is not a predator but "

someone familiar, too close

", which can go as far as "

tipping

", by "

opportunity

", estimated the prosecutor.

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At the helm, the 61-year-old defendant denied any assault, but acknowledged "

possible

" inappropriate behavior.

Society is changing, some gestures can be considered too familiar today.

A frail silhouette under a plunging purple square, one of the victims, then in her twenties, testified to "

inappropriate behavior

" for months.

But he masturbated my clitoris, and asked me + am I doing you good? +.

There, it was more possible

, ”she adds.

On that day in 2015, when she went to his house for

a "certificate

" after domestic violence, he "

watched her

" undress, then "

passed his hand along her back, her buttocks

", before observing her hematomas, she describes in her complaint.

In an "

unjustified

" way, he asks her to remove her bra, feels her breasts, and because she "

recently had an ectopic pregnancy

", "

insists

" on "

checking

" the ovaries, by a touch vaginal.

"

He put his thumb on my clitoris, and he rubbed it

," she said.

Three complaints of sexual assault

Out of 200 ex-patients contacted, three others filed a complaint for sexual assault between 2015 and 2017. About ten will mention “

inappropriate

” behavior.

"

While accompanying me to the door, he passed his hand on my back, up to my buttocks

", testified several women.

According to the survey, the doctor calls his patients "

cocotte

" or "

my chip

", gives a kiss, strokes the hair or compliments the breasts of some.

Of four complainants, two are absent, one of them having "

never responded to the summons

", recalled the president.

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A second victim, 36 years old at the time of the events, denounced Tuesday "

hands in the panties

", touching the chest, the buttocks and the level of the clitoris.

She claims to have one day "

felt an erection

" in her back.

That's wrong

,” replies the doctor.

"

They feel it like that

", but "

palpation is part of the examinations

" for certain pathologies, explains the one who has been prohibited from practicing since his judicial review in 2017. The lawyer for the order of doctors estimated on Tuesday that it was “

difficult

” to determine the “

limit between bad medical practice, familiarity or even rudeness

” and “

criminal gestures

”.

Source: lefigaro

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