Bassem Fouad: Former dentist loses registration after sexually assaulting patients
A disgraced former Sydney dentist, who inappropriately touched several patients while in the chair at his clinic, has been dealt a fresh blow. Here’s the latest.
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Disgraced former Sydney dentist Bassem Magdy El-Badrawy Fouad has been banned from practising dentistry for five years, after he sexually assaulted multiple patients while in the chair at his practice.
Fouad, 57, was found guilty of eight charges including four counts of aggravated sexual touching, three counts of indecently assaulting a victim under his authority and sexually touching a child aged between 10 and 16-years-old at a trial in the Sydney District Court in 2023.
He was also found not guilty and acquitted of one charge of sexual touching.
The court was told at the time Fouad had rubbed his crotch or thrusted his penis against the patient’s heads and arms while performing procedures in his clinic, and touched the breasts of a female patient when he put his dentistry tools on their chest.
He was sentenced to a three year community corrections order which meant he would not spend any time in custody.
The incidents spanned five patients between January 2015 to June 2021, and all happened while the patients were in the chair at one of his two Mascot dental practices.
He was suspended from his practices on June 18, 2021, and has not appealed his convictions.
Though Fouad was convicted of eight of the charges, the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) claimed he did not alert the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) to the charges within seven days.
As a result, the HCCC took him to the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) to be dealt with for professional misconduct.
The Commission also asked Fouad be dealt with for inappropriate sexual misconduct towards a patient – a claim which stemmed from the only charge of sexual touching he was acquitted of at trial.
The charge was one of several relating to the same person.
Tribunal documents state Fouad, who did not show up to the NCAT hearing in person but was legally represented, accepted he had been convicted of the eight charges at trial and agreed he
had not notified the health watchdog of his charges within a week of being charged.
The documents state Fouad said he did not deliberately fail to notify AHPRA of the charges because he thought the Dental Council of NSW would notify them instead.
He also denied the claims from the HCCC stemming from the one charge he was acquitted of at trial and rejected claims of professional misconduct as a result.
The Tribunal found due to Fouad’s convictions and failure to notify AHPRA or the HCCC of his charges, that he had acted unprofessionally and therefore his registration needed to be cancelled.
They also found that, on the balance of probabilities, Fouad had sexually touched the patient but not for his own sexual gratification, and therefore had acted unprofessionally.
Fouad’s registration was ordered to be cancelled for the next five years, banning him from providing any type of health service for that period of time.
He was also ordered to pay the HCCC’s legal costs.
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