In 2014, a family doctor sexually assaulted his patient, whom he had been following for eighteen years.
She filed a complaint, an audio recording in support.
He was given a one-year suspended prison sentence, 4,000 euros in non-pecuniary damage but can still exercise despite the request of the public prosecutor during his judgment.
The Nice court has just sentenced a 57-year-old general practitioner to a one-year suspended prison sentence and 4,000 euros in non-pecuniary damage.
He was being prosecuted for "sexual assault by a person abusing the authority conferred on him by his function" according to information from
Nice-Matin.
In 2014, he sexually assaulted his 30-year-old patient during a consultation.
This family doctor had been following the young woman since she was a teenager.
She regularly visited his practice to refill prescriptions for a treatment for crippling migraines that another practitioner had prescribed.
The Nice doctor had greatly increased the dosage of this treatment, which contained morphine.
The patient, pregnant, had become dependent.
Her baby had to be detoxified when he was born.
The doctor can continue to practice
Three months after the delivery of the 30-year-old, the health professional caressed her arm, and "plunged her head into [her] chest, then kissed her", she said, according to the regional daily. , during the hearing.
“He put his hand in my pants, between my buttocks, as far as possible.
He then swung me onto the table,” she continues, adding that she pushed him away but that he tried to corner her behind the desk, before she could finally escape.
The victim filed a complaint six years later, with an audio recording in support, still according to
Nice-Matin
.
Today, this attack still plunges her into a depressive state.
His attacker "defended" himself at the bar by evoking "a unilateral love at first sight", "a form of friendship", relates the local newspaper.
What the young woman completely denies by assuring that he was “only” the general practitioner of the family despite “a trust” that she had in him.
Despite his sentence, the practitioner will be able to continue to practice.
The public prosecutor had requested a two-year suspended sentence, a ban on practicing in a liberal cabinet and registration in the File of perpetrators of sexual offenses (Fijais).
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