CBC Report 29 Oct. 2013
The organization that certifies doctors to practice in B.C. has stripped a Victoria, B.C., Canada, man of his registration status after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a young patient.
In the disciplinary action notice filed Monday, the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons said that Dr. Farrokh Rohani sexually assaulted a 16-year-old in August 2008, and that he voluntarily stopped practising medicine the following month.
Rohani was the only doctor practicing in Port Alice at the time. It appears he was well-liked, consequently, some Port Alice residents blamed the girl, calling her a liar.
This is too often the response of people, even parents of abused children. It is one of the reasons why child sexual abuse is not being addressed as it should. And it's one of the reasons why only about one in ten child molestations get reported.
Please join me in my 3:15 PM prayer that God would bring this atrocity to an end.
The college said that following its own disciplinary process, it decided to revoke Rohani's licence to practise in B.C., effective Friday.
This is a good decision by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons, I just wonder why it took the 5 years since the assault and more than three years after the conviction before they made that decision?
"The Board concluded that the conduct of Dr. Rohani was so egregious, and the abdication and abuse of his responsibilities as a physician was so disgraceful, that the most severe penalty available under the Health Professions Act, cancellation of his registration, was required," the college said in the notice.
Rohani was convicted for the sexual assault in B.C. Supreme Court in July 2010 and sentenced to a year in jail. A subsequent appeal to the B.C. Court of Appeal was dismissed.
The college also ordered him to pay $14,094.50 towards the College’s costs of handling his disciplinary case.
The organization that certifies doctors to practice in B.C. has stripped a Victoria, B.C., Canada, man of his registration status after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a young patient.
In the disciplinary action notice filed Monday, the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons said that Dr. Farrokh Rohani sexually assaulted a 16-year-old in August 2008, and that he voluntarily stopped practising medicine the following month.
Rohani was the only doctor practicing in Port Alice at the time. It appears he was well-liked, consequently, some Port Alice residents blamed the girl, calling her a liar.
This is too often the response of people, even parents of abused children. It is one of the reasons why child sexual abuse is not being addressed as it should. And it's one of the reasons why only about one in ten child molestations get reported.
Please join me in my 3:15 PM prayer that God would bring this atrocity to an end.
The college said that following its own disciplinary process, it decided to revoke Rohani's licence to practise in B.C., effective Friday.
This is a good decision by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons, I just wonder why it took the 5 years since the assault and more than three years after the conviction before they made that decision?
"The Board concluded that the conduct of Dr. Rohani was so egregious, and the abdication and abuse of his responsibilities as a physician was so disgraceful, that the most severe penalty available under the Health Professions Act, cancellation of his registration, was required," the college said in the notice.
Rohani was convicted for the sexual assault in B.C. Supreme Court in July 2010 and sentenced to a year in jail. A subsequent appeal to the B.C. Court of Appeal was dismissed.
The college also ordered him to pay $14,094.50 towards the College’s costs of handling his disciplinary case.
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