Doctor filmed women with pen camera

General practitioners charged with sexual abuse of 13 patients

03/19/2015

The prosecutor Osnabrück has indicted a family doctor, who carried out breast examinations for no reason and secretly filmed with the help of a pen camera, the patients. According to a press release from the agency, this involves sexual abuse in 13 cases as well as the secret production of imagery in 72 cases.

Violation of the very personal sphere of life by taking pictures
As the public prosecutor Osnabrück reported, was charged against a general practitioner from Osnabrück. The accusation: The doctor is to between 2009 and 2013 in 13 cases women “taking advantage of a treatment ratio“ sexually abused. In addition, the doctor in 72 cases secretly filmed patients, which he now has to answer for the violation of the very personal sphere of life by taking pictures in a process.

Doctor touches women's breasts for no reason
The physician had presumably touched the patient's chest in patients, „without this being a medical necessity“. He was also accused, „In the 13 and 59 further cases, the patients were initially asked to expose the upper body“. In addition, the man had probably secretly taken pictures during the investigations and presumably used a ballpoint pen with integrated mini-camera. The recordings were later secured on a computer of the doctor, the prosecutor continued.

If convicted, imprisonment of up to five years is imminent
Now the district court of Osnabrück must decide on the opening of the main proceedings, the information continues. Here could the physician according to the Criminal Code § 174c, paragraph 1 threaten imprisonment, because „Anyone who commits sexual acts to a person entrusted to him for advice, treatment or care due to a physical illness or disability, misuses his or her counseling, treatment or care relationship, is punishable by imprisonment three months to five years“, informs the prosecutor. (No)

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