NSW:Gynaecologist guilty of indecent assault

AAP General News (Australia)
04-14-2011
NSW:Gynaecologist guilty of indecent assault

SYDNEY, April 14 AAP - A NSW gynaecologist has been found guilty of indecently assaulting
two women, but was acquitted of inappropriately touching another three patients.

Judge Greg Woods, who heard the trial without a jury in the NSW District Court, delivered
his verdict on Thursday.

The doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had pleaded not guilty to indecently
assaulting the five patients in 2002 and 2003.

He was accused of touching or manipulating the clitoris of each of the women during
the course of an internal pelvic examination.

He will be sentenced on a later date and the judge continued his bail.

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