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| Practitioner | Profession | Offence | Outcome | Tribunal | Jurisdiction | Decision date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemalan Seshagiri Moodley | Doctor | Sexual assault of nine patients (convictions) | Unable to apply for registration for 5 years. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2014-11-17 |
| Muhammad Jahangir | Doctor | Sexual assault of a female patient | BREACHED CHAPERONE ORDERS. | Health Practitioners Tribunal of South Australia | Adelaide, SA, Australia | 2018-05-11 |
| Deon Rall | Doctor | Two women claimed Dr Rall sexually assaulted them during internal vaginal examinations that were not necessary and were inconsistent with correct procedure. The Queensland tribunal (QCAT) deemed these "substandard" examinations, found the sexually motivated allegations not established, and found unsatisfactory professional conduct. He also breached a chaperone order. Original PDF text: SEXUAL ASSAULT OF TWO FEMALE PATIENTS. This followed an investigation into allegations against Dr Rall that he had performed internal vaginal examinations on two patients when the examinations were not necessary and were inconsistent with the correct procedure. While agreeing that they had consented to the examinations, the two women asserted that a chaperone was not present, and that Dr Rall had stimulated the clitoris. | BREACHED CHAPERONE ORDER. 3 years disqualification | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2016-06-01 |
| Health Pickett | Nurse | SEXUAL ASSAULT. He pleaded guilty in the Magistrates Court to one count of sexual assault and was sentenced, without conviction, to a Community Correction Order for a period of 18 months. | Will be reregistered and ready to rape again on 6 September 2021. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2021-04-22 |
| Vipin Lal | Doctor | SEXUAL CONTACT WITH PATIENT | Disqualification for 5 years. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2017-02-20 |
| Arvid Herbert Gunner Linde | Doctor | SEXUAL MISCONDUCT | 15 months disqualification, and back in business. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2016-07-01 |
| Christopher Bradshaw | Doctor | SEXUAL MISCONDUCT | Suspended for 3 years, and free to prey on women since 3 March 2021. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2020-05-27 |
| Masoud Davatgaran Tabriz | Doctor | SEXUAL MISCONDUCT | 6 months disqualification and has been free to prey on vulnerable people since 2015. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2016-07-18 |
| John Horner | Doctor | SEXUAL MISCONDUCT with multiple female patients. | 3 years disqualification, and free to prey on women since March 2021. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2017-03-17 |
| Lealofianna Nofoasaefa | Nurse | Sexual penetration without consent | 15 days suspension | Australia | 2019-07-03 | |
| Anthony Shanaham | Doctor | SEXUAL PREDATOR | Health Practitioners Tribunal of South Australia | Adelaide, SA, Australia | 2017-07-31 | |
| Muhammad Azam | Doctor | SEXUAL PREDATOR, STALKER. Another doctor who AHPRA enabled to continue committing crimes after CHAPERON ORDERS given by AHPRA, thus allowing him to continue his predatory behaviour towards his patients. | Had license cancelled for 4 years - but now allowed to practise. | Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Brisbane, QLD, Australia | 2017-08-22 |
| Suhail Omer Mir | Doctor | SEXUAL PREDATOR. A medical practitioner convicted of indecent assault of patient. | Registration suspended for six months. The Courts gave him a Spent Conviction, meaning his crimes are hidden. | State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia | Perth, WA, Australia | 2017-08-25 |
| Gershon Cukier | Doctor | TWO COUNTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT – REPEAT OFFENDER. Cukier continued his sexual assaulting after AHPRA were notified of his behaviour. Instead of canning him, they gave him chaperone conditions and as a result he continued offending. | Disqualified for 18 months. BREACHED CHAPERONE ORDERS and sexually assaulted another patient. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2017-02-17 |
| Douglas Knuckey | Psychologist | This psychologist assisted his frightened patient to abide by family court orders by delivering her children to her violent ex-husband. Had he not assisted her, she may have permanently lost custody of her children to her violent ex-partner. Mr Knuckey assisted his patient deliver her two children into the custody of her violent, estranged ex-husband for his access to them - when Mr Knuckey knew (or reasonably should have known) that doing so may not be safe and was against the best interests of his patient and her children. | He has permanently been prohibited from practising as a psychologist. | Health Practitioners Tribunal of South Australia | Adelaide, SA, Australia | 2016-03-22 |
| Keith Ian Brennan | Doctor | NCAT found repeated sexual boundary breaches involving a female patient, including pursuing an intimate relationship, inappropriate sexual touching and misleading the HCCC. | Registration cancelled on 12 December 2017; review barred until after 14 July 2018. The published reasons of 11 April 2018 also ordered costs. ABC reported reinstatement with conditions, including a mentor, in 2020. | NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal | NSW, Australia | 2017-12-12 |
| Kelvin Thuc Minh Vo | Doctor | NCAT found sexual misconduct involving two male patients: oral sex, sexual comments and questions, and genital examinations without clinical justification. | Registration cancelled 21 days after the 3 November 2014 order, with a two-year bar on applying for reinstatement. ABC reported that he returned in 2018 under conditions including psychiatric care. | NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal | NSW, Australia | 2014-11-03 |
| Bruce Desmond Litchfield | Doctor | Earlier findings concerned sexual conduct towards three female patients, including placing a patient’s hand over his erect penis and breast examinations for sexual gratification. A nine-month suspension in 1996 was replaced on appeal by deregistration in August 1997. | The NSW Medical Tribunal ordered reinstatement on 3 May 2012 subject to conditions, including supervision and psychiatric care, and ordered him to pay the Medical Council’s costs. | Medical Tribunal of New South Wales | NSW, Australia | 2012-05-03 |
| Richard George Young | Doctor | The published appeal decision describes sexual relationships with patients and a later incident in which he paid a patient $50 for oral sex following a health check, contrary to a prior undertaking prohibiting sexual or personal relationships with patients. | VCAT cancelled registration and disqualified him from reapplying until 1 July 2011. The Supreme Court refused leave to appeal on 16 December 2010. ABC reported a return with chaperone conditions in 2013 and an unrelated suspension as at February 2023. | Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | 2010-09-21 |
| Mohamed Payenda Zhouand Safi | Doctor | NCAT found deliberate inappropriate genital touching during a vaginal examination, followed by hugging and kissing a female patient. It found professional misconduct. | Registration cancelled on 29 June 2017, with an 18-month non-review period and $35,000 costs. ABC reported a return in 2022 with chaperone restrictions for female patients older than 13. | NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal | NSW, Australia | 2017-06-29 |