{"id":10156,"date":"2014-10-14T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/wordpress\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2014-10-14T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T08:01:41","slug":"sexual-assault-charges-levelled-against-mississauga-psychologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/sexual-assault-charges-levelled-against-mississauga-psychologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual assault charges levelled against Mississauga psychologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written before about the negative impact a criminal charge can have on a professional&#8217;s career and reputation. An accused individual doesn&#8217;t even have to be convicted for an allegation to damage his or her career. For example, consider our recent post on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/blog\/2014\/09\/ontario-doctors-practice-restricted-after-sexual-abuse-allegations.html\">restrictions<\/a>\u00a0placed on a Mississauga physician&#8217;s practice.<\/p>\n<p>Now another Mississauga professional is facing serious criminal charges in connection with allegations that date back to 2001. Three counts of sexual assault have been brought against a former psychologist who was already disciplined in 2012 by the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO). Investigators recently arrested the man after a patient reported the alleged misconduct to legal authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, during CPO proceedings that ended in 2012, the psychologist admitted that in 2002 he inappropriately touched a male patient&#8217;s shoulders, chest and leg. The regulatory board ultimately decided to discipline the psychologist, who agreed never to practice again anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario law does not require medical regulatory bodies such as the CPO to report a possible criminal offence by a member. In this case, nearly two years passed between the CPO&#8217;s ruling and the start of the criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario&#8217;s Regulated Health Professions Act governs medical regulatory boards. You can read more about the act&#8217;s confidentiality requirements\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/crime\/2014\/10\/09\/arrested_mississauga_psychologist_once_disciplined_by_college.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thorough preparation is necessary to defend effectively against allegations of sexual assault, and a proactive approach to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/Sex-Crimes-Domestic-Offences\/Sexual-Assault-Related-Offences.html\">criminal defence<\/a>\u00a0is the best way to prepare. A person doesn&#8217;t have to wait to be charged to begin mounting a defence. If you suspect that you are being investigated by authorities, then you should contact a criminal defence lawyer as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written before about the negative impact a criminal charge can have on a professional&#8217;s career and reputation. An accused individual doesn&#8217;t even have to be convicted for an allegation to damage his or her career. For example, consider our recent post on the\u00a0restrictions\u00a0placed on a Mississauga physician&#8217;s practice. Now another Mississauga professional is facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,36,12],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-assault","tag-criminal-defence","tag-sex-crimes","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}