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Sexual Assault against Patients Lands Doctor in Jail

By Neil Shous, Esq.

A 44-year-old doctor in Rowland Heights has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting his patients during office visits, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports. Dr. Wazir Nadir Ali was reportedly booked on five counts of penetration with a foreign object and one count of sexual battery under false pretenses, according to Whittier police reports. Police arrested the doctor after a 20-year-old woman told officials that he sexually assaulted her under the pretext of physically examining her. A similar allegation came from a 53-year-old woman. Both incidents allegedly occurred during medical appointments in 2005 and 2007 at a Bright Medical Associates facility on Whittier Boulevard in the city of Whittier where Ali had his practice. This doctor has not yet been found guilty of the allegations...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).