A doctor who avoided criminal conviction for accessing youngster pornography on a computer system has been stripped of his medical licence. Get extra details about Dr R licence cancelled over porn
The Wellness Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal says inside a decision produced public yesterday that it has cancelled the doctor's registration, ordered him to spend 30 per cent on the charges of the tribunal plus a Healthcare Council skilled conduct committee, and permanently suppressed his name.
The man repeatedly accessed and viewed kid pornography from about 1999 to 2013. He admitted his misconduct for the committee.
He told the tribunal that many of the photos he accessed have been inside the lower categories of objectionable material and only a handful of have been inside the a lot more disturbing categories.
The medical professional disclosed his behaviour towards the council early last year.
In the time he was employed by a district wellness board. He told the DHB of his behaviour and asked it to impose a chaperone requirement for examining individuals younger than 18.
He has not worked since the middle of final year, when he agreed not to practise medicine. He has left his wife and two young kids.
In 2008, criminal charges were laid against the medical professional immediately after a police investigation. He faced nine counts of possessing objectionable material relating to much more than "600 photos of female kids and young persons", the tribunal says.
"The Crown case in respect on the pictures relied on evidence gathered pursuant to 3 search warrants. That proof was ultimately ruled inadmissible by the Court of Appeal [in] 2010," a document mentioned.
He was discharged.
"In his January 2014 submission towards the council Dr R advised that the 2008 charges were dismissed 'through a technicality'."
Based on an agreed statement of facts, the medical professional told the committee he began viewing ordinary pornography online after he and his companion in the time bought their first laptop in about 1998.
He became bored with ordinary pornography and moved to viewing youngster pornography initially by accident. He also features a history of cannabis and alcohol addiction.
Some time following the discharge he started accessing objectionable material at dwelling on a perform laptop. In 2013, when returning from overseas, his laptop was seized and forensically examined. Proof was found of objectionable photos having been present but later deleted.
"Because Dr R had deleted the relevant pictures by the time that he arrived in New Zealand, Customs didn't lay a charge ... "
Following the seizure, the medical professional confided within a GP and later saw a counsellor. The doctor told the committee he felt shame and guilt, partly from realising his behaviour was a type of child abuse.