German doctor gets more than 5 years on sex abuse charges

NAMPA / DPA

2026-05-12

Osnabrück, Germany (dpa) - An orthopaedic surgeon has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison in Germany for secretly filming female patients and for sexual abuse. The Osnabrück Regional Court also found him guilty of producing child and youth pornography, and imposed a lifelong ban on the 43-year-old from treating female patients. The court found it proven that the doctor, from the Osnabrück district some 50 kilometres from the Dutch......

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