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| Michael Salmon denies 11 counts of indecent assault, three counts of rape and two counts of procuring an abortion |
Michael Salmon assaulted the patient with two other men in a hospital bed as part of a string of attacks on young girls in the 70s and 80s.
One former patient came to Salmon when she became pregnant aged 16 – and was raped at his home moments after he gave her an illegal backstreet abortion, it was said.
Others were allegedly molested as their parents sat unaware on the other side of a hospital screen in his consulting room.
The 79-year-old appeared at Reading Crown Court yesterday where a judge heard how he abused his position as consultant paediatrician at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire – where disgraced DJ Savile is said to have abused scores of patients while carrying out charity work.
Patients claimed Salmon also had a picture of his son with the Jim’ll Fix It star on his office wall.
Jurors were told that although Salmon did not abuse victims ‘in concert’ with Savile, the sex attacks between 1973 and 1988 occurred at the same time as other offences. (more...)
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