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| Practitioner | Profession | Offence | Outcome | Tribunal | Jurisdiction | Decision date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wade Benjamin Brearley | Nurse (enrolled 2007) | Between August 2008 and October 2009 he accessed child abuse material on numerous occasions and saved it to portable devices; some images were in the most serious categories (penetration, sadism, bestiality). While on duty as a nurse he secretly filmed up the skirt of a female nurse colleague (upskirting); the image was found when police searched his computer. Pleaded guilty to 19 counts of using the internet to access child pornography, one count of possessing child pornography and one upskirting offence (Criminal Code (Qld) s 227A(2)). Longest jail term 2 years; released after 5 months on a suspended sentence, then 2 years' probation. | Reprimanded; barred from reapplying for registration for 3 years and until he completes 12 months of counselling and psychiatric treatment and a health assessment. If re-registered, 2 years of conditions: no nursing agency work, no care of under-18s without direct supervision, no internet access at work without supervision. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with assessors Alan Barnard, Wayne Sanderson and Beryl Valentine) accepted orders jointly agreed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board and Brearley, leaving the door open for him to return to nursing. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2012-07-20 |
| Shariq Ghulam Yasin | Medical practitioner (psychiatrist) | A Brisbane hospital psychiatrist, he gave a female patient with bipolar affective disorder his mobile number at their first consultation in early 2008, made physical contact, then had months of personal phone calls, car-park kissing and sexual intercourse in Sydney. When her condition deteriorated she was involuntarily admitted to hospital under his care. The tribunal said his conduct 'could be seen as predatory'. No criminal charges. Unsatisfactory professional conduct and misconduct in a professional respect. | Registration suspended for 2 years, with the second year suspended after 12 months on conditions (ethics course, 12 months' supervision on boundary violations); Board's costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr Sandra Dunglison, Dr Stephen Pozzi and Glen Lamperd) accepted the Board's joint proposal for suspension rather than cancellation; the Board said it would have sought cancellation had he contested. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2011-06-28 |
| Andrew North | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | He had a three-year sexual relationship (1999 to 2002) with a woman he was treating as her GP. When his former wife complained in 2011 he signed an 'ardent denial' to the Board, denying the affair three times and attacking his former wife's credibility, and recanted only when the patient confirmed the relationship. No criminal charges. Disciplinary grounds established, including a false statement to the Board's investigator. | Reprimand; 3 months' suspension, itself suspended after one month on conditions (boundary counselling, Board access to his patient and Medicare records for 2 years); reprimand removed from the public register after 2 years; Board's costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr Kong Goh, Fiona Petty and Dr John Waller) accepted the jointly proposed orders and limited how long the reprimand stays on the public register. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2012-07-20 |
| John Michael Jones | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | He treated an enrolled nurse and her husband for stress and anxiety from 2008, knowing their marital problems and that the husband was at risk of self-harm, then began a sexual relationship with her and lived with her for a time while continuing to treat her family. The patient said she felt manipulated and reported comments that could be seen as grooming. No criminal charges. Professional misconduct finding. | Reprimand; 6 months' suspension, which stopped after 2 months on conditions (12 months' boundary counselling; restricted to aged-care practice for 4 months); Board's costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr Sandra Congdon, Trevor Jordan and Dr David Rosengren) lifted the suspension after two months and allowed him to keep practising in aged-care homes. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2012-07-25 |
| Jordan David Hennig | Medical radiation technologist (radiographer) | Over six months he stalked a nurse colleague: using a work computer, he created a fake female identity with a website, email and phone number, offered her modelling work, won her trust and procured nude and sexually explicit photographs of her, using information he got at work. Pleaded guilty to unlawful stalking; sentenced November 2009 to a fine and 2 years' probation. | Registration cancelled, but he could reapply once his probation ended (November 2011) and a psychologist reported favourably; 12 months of mentoring and employer reporting on return; $6,000 costs by instalments. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with M Buckley, L Cross and G Rattray). The Board itself proposed that he be allowed to reapply after only 9 months; the tribunal extended this only to the end of his probation. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2010-11-26 |
| Clem Richard Peter Bonney | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | A GP, he used the internet to access child abuse material. A psychologist said it was part of compulsive pornography use that 'crossed the child pornography boundary'. Pleaded guilty to one count of using a carriage service to access child pornography (Criminal Code (Cth) s 474.19(1)); 12 months' imprisonment, released immediately on an 18-month good behaviour and supervision order. | No suspension at all: conditions only, including a chaperone for any patient under 18, ongoing psychological treatment, Board monitoring of records; conditions not reviewable for 3 years; Board's costs. He kept practising. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President) made the orders jointly proposed by the Medical Board of Australia, which itself sought only conditions; the Board took no action over two breaches of his voluntary undertakings, accepting them as inadvertent. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2010-11-02 |
| Satya Nandam | Medical practitioner (general practitioner) | An experienced GP, he had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient for about nine months in 2007-08, knowing her health problems and personal circumstances, while continuing to treat her and her sons. No criminal charges. Disciplinary grounds established. | Reprimand; 3 months' suspension, itself suspended after 1 month for 2 years on conditions (psychiatric treatment, 40-hour patient cap, supervision, ethics course); $20,000 costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Dr S Congdon, Dr J Osborne and M Shapiro) accepted the Board's joint proposal; no restriction on treating female patients was imposed. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2011-02-25 |
| Lee James Heather | Registered nurse (mental health, eating disorder clinic) | Working in a public hospital eating disorder clinic, he groomed a highly vulnerable patient on naso-gastric feeding (an incest survivor with borderline personality disorder) despite specific warnings, set up secret 'counselling', had her use a pseudonym for him, took her on outings and began a physical relationship. He kept going after his director warned him, and tried to get her to give false evidence to investigators. No criminal charges reported. Unsatisfactory professional conduct, including infamous conduct in a professional respect. | Barred from reapplying for only 2.5 years, subject to a boundaries course, counselling and an oral exam; permanently barred from mental health nursing; 12 months' supervision on return. Each party paid its own costs. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with Jenny Goodwin, Dr Trevor Jordan and Barbara Soong) accepted the Board's agreed orders, acknowledging the 2.5-year period 'may appear to be shorter than might otherwise have been ordered'. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2010-09-01 |
| Fh (Name Suppressed) | Psychiatric nurse | Between 1989 and 1992 he raped and indecently assaulted two nieces who were staying in his home. He then worked as a psychiatric nurse in Victoria and at Wolston Park and the Mater Hospital in Queensland. In June 2009, weeks before pleading guilty, he declared on his renewal application that he had never been charged with an offence. Convicted in Victoria (July 2009) of three counts of indecent assault and one count of rape; 4 years 8 months' jail, minimum 2 years. | Barred from reapplying for 8 years, then only with a psychiatric report; costs. Not a permanent ban. QCAT (Judge Fleur Kingham, Deputy President, with S Johnson, D Moen and A Urquhart) said that without the false declaration it would have imposed only 5 years. The name was suppressed. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | QLD, Australia | 2010-12-01 |