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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tina Greco - Melbourne on March 06, 2008, 12:55:00 AM
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A doctor who raped or indecently assaulted 14 patients over a six-year period was "looking after his own pernicious needs", a Victorian County Court judge said yesterday.
Dermatologist David Wee Kin Tong, 40, pleaded guilty to seven counts of rape and seven of indecent assault committed at his Clifton Hill, Malvern and Preston practices between October 2001 and March 2007.
Despite two of his victims complaining to the Medical Practitioners Board in 2004 and 2005, he was allowed to continue practising and did not stop offending, prosecutor Claire Quin said.
For many victims it was their first time seeing a skin specialist, and they did not know what to expect, she said.
She told Judge Geoffrey Chettle that Tong requested that the women submit to a full body examination and in most cases asked them to strip and lie on an examination table.
He felt their genitals and in some cases took photos of them naked without consent, using his mobile phone.
On some occasions he asked the victims to pose naked for "body mapping" photographs that could help with their diagnosis and then took pictures of their genitals and naked bodies.
Ms Quin said many of the victims had trusted Tong because he was a doctor.
Some noticed Tong sweating, shaking and panting during examinations.
The offences were discovered when one client told a friend, a police officer, of her concerns.
Police searched Tong's home and found 120 explicit photographs of naked women, including patients.
Tong was stopped by customs officers in May 2007 at Melbourne Airport. A search revealed 27 explicit photos of eight of his clients on his mobile phone, taken without their knowledge during examinations.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, one victim said she was angry that the medical board had not taken her complaint more seriously.
"Trust was put in the hands of a professional and that was abused. All of it could have been avoided had the medical board acted."
Another said she found it hard to trust male doctors following her consultation with Tong.
"I paid $120 for a 15-minute consultation and all Doctor Tong did was abuse me," She said in her victim impact statement. "Doctor Tong knew exactly what he was doing."
Judge Chettle said Tong's behaviour reflected poorly on "the male race as a whole".
Jane Dixon, SC, for Tong, said her client had been under a lot of pressure because his father, who had had terminal cancer for nine years, died in 2006.
She said he had trouble relating to women because of his strict Pentecostal upbringing. He had had only one serious relationship at 21. It had ended badly and had devastated him.
Ms Dixon said Tong had focused solely on study from the time he left high school in 1984 until he became a registered dermatologist in 2001.
"I suppose he could be described as somewhat of a nerd in his approach to life," she told the court.
The plea hearing continues today.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/rapist-doctor-panted-during-examinations/2008/03/04/1204402408406.html
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Do you have to use the term "slopehead"? My understanding is that there are Asian members of JTF. Lets not throw epithets around.
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Slopehead....LOL I've heard the term before but forgot what it was. I was going to ask "What's a slopehead?"
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Do you have to use the term "slopehead"? My understanding is that there are Asian members of JTF. Lets not throw epithets around.
Well why not ban that word too :::D
So what its there are Aisans here, they are not the person in question.
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Obviously they are not the person in question but they might find the term offensive and subsequently not want to be part of JTF.
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Obviously they are not the person in question but they might find the term offensive and subsequently not want to be part of JTF.
Then they are not really interested in the movement then are they?
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Obviously they are not the person in question but they might find the term offensive and subsequently not want to be part of JTF.
Then they are not really interested in the movement then are they?
People have to stop being hypersensitive little cry babies and girlies.
When Tovia Singer talks about the 'bog Irish' anti-semites who abused him as a boy, I don't cry & b1tch because I'm of Irish catholic blood. I know he's not referrring to me.
When we talk about apes in Harlem, Cosmo doesn't cry about it because he knows we don't mean him or his dad.
There are too many people looking for any excuse to indulge in being offended.
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"Slopehead" is such a crude, uncouth, word!
Call them "Zipperhead" like Albert Einstein did, on that day at Princeton University where he threw that glass ashtray full of cigarette butts all over the ditzy blonde.
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Zipperheads ? BTW Asians can't be blonde, unless they bleach their black hair to hell.
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Ah, it is all good: Raghead, slopehead, zipperhead, dothead, shvoog...whatever. It is only a word and anyone who is offended has the right to debate it and is most likely not the individual in question anyway.
Slopehead, like Zipperhead, has a nice ring to it.... ;)
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Dothead :D I can't stop laughing :::D :::D :::D I got many indian friends they will like that one ;)
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Push starts, pull starts... My friend used to say that the reason why Indians have dots are so that non-Indians can scratch it off to see if they win a prize...lol
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:::D :::D your a dag :::D :::D
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'Power point' face is a good one. :) (I'm part chinger, BTW. Notice I'm not b*tching?).
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'Power point' face is a good one. :) (I'm part chinger, BTW. Notice I'm not b*tching?).
LOL which part ^-^ :::D
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:::D :::D :::D O0
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Admittedly this guy sounds like a dirt bag but rape? How is what he did considered rape?
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I think you will find they left a lot out of the papers.
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Admittedly this guy sounds like a dirt bag but rape? How is what he did considered rape?
Any type of penetration (even digital or with foreign objcts) is considered rape.