Brisbane anaesthetist who worked at Toowoomba admits sexual assault
A Brisbane practitioner who worked in the Darling Downs has admitted to behaving inappropriately with three young female patients. Find out what happens now.
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A Brisbane anaesthetist who plied his trade in the Darling Downs where he serviced major hospitals has admitted he filmed three unconscious women and sexually assaulted two of them.
The Mount Ommaney man’s identity cannot be legally revealed but his solicitor Samantha Farr told Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday he would be pleading guilty to two counts of sexual assault and three counts of observations or recordings made in breach of privacy.
Under Queensland law, a person charged with such offences cannot be named until they have been committed to stand trial, or have formally entered a plea of guilty.
The anaesthetist, understood to have formerly been employed at a variety of clinics which serviced Toowoomba Base Hospital, St Andrew’s, St Vincent’s and the Toowoomba Surgicentre, did not personally appear at Thursday’s mention of the charges.
The offences occurred on various dates between November last year and February this year at an address in Toowoomba, understood to be a hospital.
It’s previously been reported his female victims were all aged in their twenties.
The anaesthetist’s registration was suspended by the Office of the Health Ombudsman on August 11 after restrictions that he not have contact with female patients were imposed in April this year.
According to health regulator AHPRA, the anaesthetist graduated from the University of Queensland in 2001 with a Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery and is a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
His principal place of practice is now listed as Toowong on AHPRA’s website.
The anaesthetist’s charges were set down for a lengthy guilty plea in Brisbane Magistrates Court on November 30.
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