A 63-year-old doctor accused of having sex with his patients
went on trial in the Southern German state of Bavaria on Monday, the
prosecution said.
The
prosecution alleged that the physician, who was not identified under Germany’s
strict privacy laws, exploited the trust of three of his female mentally
unstable patients by having sex with them without treating them.
“A trained
psychotherapist, the doctor committed the acts either in his practice or in the
women’s homes.
“He could face imprisonment of three months to five years if found guilty,’’
the prosecution said.
The doctor
had regularly asked mentally ill patients to come to his surgery between 2012
and 2015 usually in the late evening hours, prosecutors said in an earlier
statement on the case.
He is
alleged to have told the women that sex was part of the therapy.
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