Doctor secretly filmed his patients with a pen in his office

Process kick-off in Osnabrück: doctor secretly films female patients with a ballpoint pen camera
In Osnabrück, the trial of a 62-year-old physician has begun. The doctor is said to have secretly filmed several patients with a ballpoint pen camera. In addition, he had touched women immoral. He is also accused of owning and distributing child pornography.

Doctor secretly filmed patients
In Osnabrück, the case has begun against a doctor, who in many cases secretly filmed patients with a ball-point pen camera. The news agency dpa reports that the general practitioner is said to have owned nearly 90,000 children's and youth porn files. The 62-year-old has since then before Tuesday before the district court Osnabrück responsible. Already in November 2013, the allegations against the doctor, who operated a practice in Osnabrück, became known.

Touch without "medical necessity"
The Defendant's defense lawyer requested that the procedure be opened to protect the medical profession as well as the patients from the public. The prosecution accuses the family doctor to secretly filmed women 72 times after asking them to undress in part. In addition, the doctor should have touched in patients' breasts of the patient, "without this being a medical need". According to the court, 13 cases were reported to have affected women who were "given treatment for treatment, inter alia due to particular mental or physical afflictions".

Almost 90,000 youth and child pornographic files
According to the prosecutor's indictment, the doctor is accused of violating the personal sphere of life by taking pictures, making sexual abuse by exploiting a treatment relationship and possessing and distributing child pornography. In twelve cases at the end of 2013, he is said to have uploaded corresponding files in an exchange. In addition, in a search almost 90,000 images and video recordings of children and adolescents in distinct poses were found in the 62-year-olds. The defendant faces imprisonment of between three months and 15 years. Unfortunately, the Osnabrück scandal doctor is not an isolated case. There are always reports of doctors who abuse the patient trust. For example, it became known in 2011 that a gynecologist from Schifferstadt in Rhineland-Palatinate had taken secretly photographs of patients for years. (Ad)