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Title: Doctor touched transsexual, avoids jail
Post by: Shana A on December 01, 2008, 07:18:13 AM
Doctor touched transsexual, avoids jail
December 1, 2008 - 12:27PM

http://news.smh.com.au/national/doctor-touched-transsexual-avoids-jail-20081201-6o9s.html (http://news.smh.com.au/national/doctor-touched-transsexual-avoids-jail-20081201-6o9s.html)

A Melbourne doctor has escaped jail time for indecently touching a suicidal transsexual patient.

Dr Sulieman Hamid, 53, touched the mentally-ill patient's breasts and neck while treating her for a slashed wrist in a cubicle at Sunshine Hospital's emergency department in June last year.

The patient, who cannot be named, had propositioned the doctor, asking him for sex.
Title: Re: Doctor touched transsexual, avoids jail
Post by: whatsername on December 01, 2008, 05:50:37 PM
Of course he got away with it.  *spit*
Title: Re: Doctor touched transsexual, avoids jail
Post by: Kaweah on December 03, 2008, 11:14:06 AM
Quote from: Sydney Morning HeraldJudge McInerney said Hamid felt his behaviour had shamed his family.

He accepted that Hamid's career was in doubt and that he was currently suspended from practising as a doctor in Victoria.
Perhaps it would be better if he was suspended from practicing medicine in all of Australia, but I don't think Hamid has escaped without punishment.