Overview

• A Bonneville gynecologist was convicted by the Cour criminelle de Haute-Savoie and received a ten-year prison sentence for rapes committed during medical consultations.
• Thirty women filed complaints against the sexagenarian practitioner, leading to convictions on nine counts of rape.
• Assaults included penile penetration, non-medical rectal touches, and vaginal massages misrepresented as therapy for retroverted uterus.
• The defense maintained the acts were medically justified or never occurred, but judges accepted victim testimonies.
• He is to be incarcerated at the Centre pénitentiaire d’Aiton and holds a ten-day window to lodge an appeal.