2023-12-22 18:10:17
The Brussels Court of Appeal on Friday sentenced a Brussels emergency doctor to five years in prison for sexually assaulting three patients. She further ordered that the man be immediately placed under arrest warrant. The criminal court had already sentenced him to three years of imprisonment in June 2022.
The investigation began in September 2017. A young woman who had been drugged without her knowledge and had felt unwell during a party presented herself to the emergency room with her sister. The emergency doctor asked the latter to leave the room before examining the victim, without surgical gloves. According to her, the doctor “sensually” touched her breasts and private parts, before penetrating her with his fingers. He also kissed her chest, before going down again with his hands and his mouth. The young woman immediately warned her sister, who was sitting a little further. The police had arrested the doctor that same evening and the investigation revealed that the man was not his first attempt. He had already sexually assaulted another patient two weeks earlier. The doctor had was released, but under conditions. He then moved to Arlon where he began working in a new hospital. He immediately attacked a third woman there. The Brussels criminal court had already sentenced the man to three years in prison in June 2022 for the acts perpetrated in the capital, but acquitted him for the acts committed in Arlon.
The Brussels Court of Appeal considered that the acts committed in the province of Luxembourg were also proven. She therefore imposed a five-year prison sentence on the man, including one year suspended.
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