A DIRTY-MINDED doctor jailed for 12 months for sexually assaulting a woman at a clinic has lost his final appeal.
The Arab national, aged 45, whose nationality has not been stated in case files, was found guilty of abusing an employee at a medical centre in Seef District.
He was jailed by the High Criminal Court in December last year.
He then lodged an appeal at the Supreme Criminal Appeals Court, which upheld his initial sentence but removed his deportation order.
A final appeal at the Cassation Court against his convictions was then dismissed.
“The defendant was found guilty of the charges due to sufficient evidence against him,” read the court ruling. “He denied the charges and said that he was only doing his job in an attempt to evade punishment.”
His Bahraini victim, aged 25, who works as a receptionist at the facility, was suffering from pains in her neck and back, when she asked the medic to examine her on September 2 last year.
The woman described how he groped her when he carried out his inspection, before she ran away in tears and locked herself inside a bathroom.
“I worked for the clinic for nine months,” she said in her statement to prosecutors. “I was suffering from back and neck pains before he (the defendant) used a device to treat me.
“He then sent me a message on my mobile phone and asked me to come another day to carry on with the treatment.
“He also commented on my profile picture on WhatsApp and said that he had not seen it before.
“He then carried on with a similar medical treatment, before he told me that my body was stiff and that I needed a message. He then got on top of the chair and put his legs between my thighs, before touching my private parts.
“I screamed and pushed him off before I locked myself in the bathroom at the clinic and started crying. I informed my manager about what had happened and he sent a female colleague to me.”
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