Doctor charged with sexual assault on patient found not guilty; decision remains unchanged on retrial

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On the 12th, the Tokyo High Court (Judge Hiroaki Saito, presiding) handed down a verdict on retrial of breast surgeon Susumu Sekine (49), who was charged with quasi-forcible indecency for allegedly licking a female patient's breast after surgery. The verdict was a reversal of the Tokyo District Court's first-instance ruling that found the defendant not guilty...

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On the 12th, the Tokyo High Court upheld the Tokyo District Court's first-instance ruling (February 2019) that found the doctor not guilty of indecent assault against a male doctor (49) accused of licking a female patient's breast immediately after surgery at a hospital in Tokyo's Adachi Ward in 2016, and dismissed the prosecution's appeal.

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On the 12th, the Tokyo High Court upheld the first-instance acquittal and dismissed the prosecution's appeal in a retrial of a male doctor (49) accused of quasi-forcible indecency for licking a female patient's breast after surgery at a hospital in Adachi Ward, Tokyo in 2016. The Supreme Court overturned the second-instance ruling of two years in prison...