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   From: Angela_member@newsguy.com   
      
   In article <1159943048.893726.249580@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Barbara   
   Schwarz says...   
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   >   
   >Angela Gupta schrieb:   
   >   
   >>From nzherald.co.nz [quote ]Former New Zealand psychiatrist Dr Selwyn Leeks   
   has   
   >> been ordered to pay $55,000 in damages for sexually abusing a former   
   patient.   
   >>The payment was ordered by an Australian court which found that Dr Leeks   
   "took   
   >> advantage ... of a disturbed psychiatric patient".   
   >>   
   >>The 77-year-old is also being investigated by New Zealand police over claims   
   by   
   >>former child and youth patients that he abused them at Lake Alice Hospital   
   near   
   >> Wanganui in the 1970s.   
   >>   
   >> He escaped a potentially damning disciplinary hearing before the Medical   
   >> Practitioners Board of Victoria last month by effectively surrendering his   
   >> medical licence in return for the case being shelved.   
   >>   
   >> A five-year investigation into complaints from 50 former Lake Alice patients   
   >> found a case of unprofessional conduct to answer in 16 of them.   
   >>   
   >> Dr Leeks, who left New Zealand in the late 1970s, is accused of punishing   
   >> patients with electric shock therapy.   
   >>   
   >>The sexual abuse claim was heard as a civil case in the Victoria County   
   Court.   
   >>   
   >> Judge Jim Duggan said in his verdict: "I conclude that a senior and   
   >> well-credentialled psychiatrist took advantage of the vulnerability of a   
   >> disturbed psychiatric patient for the purposes of sexual gratification."   
   >>   
   >> He awarded the woman $55,000 damages.   
   >>   
   >> Dr Leeks said he had no recollection of the woman, and denied any sexual   
   >> impropriety. [end quote]   
   >>   
   >> That's pretty convenient memory lapse.   
   >   
   >You post very informative articles, Angela, keep them coming.   
   >   
   >Barbara Schwarz   
   >>   
   >   
   Glad you like 'em.  There's certainly no shortage of articles in the news about   
   psychiatrists who sexually abuse patients, maim and injure them, commit   
   financial crimes, perpetrate fraud, and generally indulge in criminal activity.   
   Angela   
      
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