A court in Britain has put on trial a former children’s doctor for sexually assaulting 19 young patients, including boys and girl, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Michael Salmon, consultant pediatrician, assaulted 18 girls and a boy while working at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Southeastern England’s Buckinghamshire County during that period.
Among the assaulted girls, there exists a 14-year-old, who was raped after being tied to a couch.
Salmon, 81, dismisses commuting 25 counts of indecent assault against complainants as young as eight and also pleads not guilty to the rape of the 14-year-old girl.
He would touch the children intimately, carry out “inappropriate” examinations without a nurse present, and in one case raped a girl, Prosecutor Miranda Moore told the jury.
“The complainants were either screened from their parents or Mr. Salmon persuaded their parents to wait outside the room,” she added.
“He would routinely get the child away from the…