Crown suggests medical exams done for sexual purpose in doctor’s sex assault trial
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WARNING: Some of the details in this article are graphic Crown prosecutors questioned a Manitoba doctor accused of sexual assault, suggesting he was aroused while conducting an exam on a female patient – one of many exams they allege were done for his own sexual gratification.
WARNING: Some of the details in this article are graphic
Crown prosecutors questioned a Manitoba doctor accused of sexual assault, suggesting he was aroused while conducting an exam on a female patient – one of many exams they allege were done for his own sexual gratification.
Dr. Arcel Bissonnette returned to the witness stand Friday in Manitoba’s Court of King’s Bench. The 63-year-old doctor is standing trial on six counts of sexual assault – one of which has been stayed.
Six other charges of sexual assault against the Ste. Anne doctor were stayed earlier this year.
The Crown previously called five women to testify in the trial, all of whom were patients of Bissonnette’s at the Seine Medical Centre in Ste. Anne or the Ste. Anne Hospital.
The Crown alleges all five women were sexually assaulted by the doctor.
In her cross-examination Friday, Crown prosecutor Renee Lagimodiere suggested Bissonnette conducted certain exams on these women for sexual gratification – something the doctor denied multiple times.
