Family doctor secretly films patients

Doctor scandal: Osnabrück family doctor secretly films patients

05/02/2014

A physician from Osnabrück is said to have secretly filmed patients during the examination with a camera. Hundreds of video footage police found in the course of another investigation on the computer of the accused, is now being investigated for violation of privacy. The victims are known to the police by name and are currently being questioned about the crime.

Similar case in November 2012
Last November, a gynecologist, who had secretly taken thousands of pictures of his patients, was also sentenced to three and a half years in prison by the district court in Frankenthal in the Palatinate. At that time, the judges came to the conclusion that the gynecologist from Schifferstadt had violated the "very personal sphere of life" of his patients in more than 1400 cases. In addition, the doctor of sexual abuse had made use of a counseling and care relationship in three cases guilty. With the judgment at that time the court remained only slightly under the demand of the public prosecutor's office, a four-year imprisonment in addition to a professional prohibition pronounce. The defenders of the gynecologist had demanded two years probation on probation, because the doctor was confessed and the patient had no pain, by a retransmission of the images, inflicted. (Fr)