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B.C. chiropractor facing trial for sexual assault agrees
to permanent cancellation of licence
Murray Kievit has faced previous discipline for inappropriate touching,
as well as criminal charges
Bethany Lindsay · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2023 4:00 AM PDT |
Former chiropractor Murray Kievit is set to go to trial in January 2024 on two charges of sexual assault.
(White House Wellness Centre)
A chiropractor in British Columbia who has faced several allegations over the last three decades of sexually assaulting or inappropriately touching his patients has agreed to permanently give up his licence ahead of his next criminal trial.
Murray Kievit's registration will be cancelled for life as of July 31, even though he denies allegations of improperly touching a patient, according to a notice from the College of Chiropractors of B.C.
Kievit, from Vernon, B.C., is set to go to trial in January on two counts of sexual assault, the B.C. Prosecution Service confirmed Thursday. The Crown is not releasing further details of the allegations, including whether the criminal case involves a patient.
Kievit could not be reached for comment.
This will not be his first trial for sexual assault or his first brush with professional discipline for inappropriate touching.
Twenty-three years ago, Kievit was found not guilty of sexual assault after six women alleged he had touched their breasts and pubic areas during treatments between 1995 and 1998, according to reports in the Vernon Morning Star newspaper at that time.
Following his acquittal in 2000, Kievit signed a consent agreement with the college admitting that he had failed to meet the expected standard of care "in relation to the provision of treatment in the patient's pubic area that resulted in unintentional violations of their sexual integrity," according to a public notice.
Amazing! And he was found 'not guilty' of sexually assaulting 6 women. Ahhhh! Canadian Justice!
That consent agreement included a fine, restrictions on his ability to do pubic treatments and a promise to minimize accidental contact with patients' breasts and genitals.
Kievit was disciplined again in 2009 after admitting he didn't get consent before placing his hands in the front of a patient's pants to treat her pubic bone, according to another public notice.
He also acknowledged improper use of a teddy bear during that treatment, the college says, which was "without clinical benefit, inappropriate to any intended clinical purpose, and demonstrated a lack of gender sensitivity."
The college's notice does not go into any further explanation of how the teddy bear was used, but says the incident resulted in discipline measures including a three-month suspension and an apology letter to the patient.
In response to the most recent complaint of inappropriate touching, Kievit has been required to have a chaperone present during all appointments with female patients since January 2022.
Now his licence has been permanently cancelled, Kievit has also agreed not to engage in any form of health care again, and must pay costs of $1,000.
Drunk Delta passenger who was served 11 drinks sexually assaulted
mom and teen daughter on 9-hour ‘nightmare’ flight: lawsuit
By Rich Calder and Jacob Geanous, NYPost
July 29, 2023 8:11am Updated
The Delta flight attendants allegedly let the drunk walk off the plane without calling authorities.
Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
A man on a Delta Air Lines flight downed at least 10 vodkas and a glass of wine before groping a 16-year-old girl and her mother, according to a lawsuit.
Flight attendants on the nearly nine-hour nightmare flight out of JFK Airport “blatantly ignored” the pair’s pleas for help — including a demand to stop giving the abuser booze — according to court papers filed Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Staffers then allegedly let the jailbait-loving drunkard quietly walk off the plane when it landed in Athens, Greece, without notifying local police of an alleged sexual assault.
“What happened to them during a flight was not just a nightmare, it was completely preventable,” said the family’s lawyer, Evan Brustein, of the July 26, 2022 trip.
Flight staff allegedly served the man vodka even though he was noticeably drunk.
He “frightened” the teen by putting his hands on her back, making “obscene gestures,” screaming, and demanding she tell him her address and other personal information, the family claims.
He also told the mom he “did not care” the daughter was a minor.
Delta flight attendants allegedly served a passenger 10 glasses of vodka with ice and a glass of wine during the first three hours of a nearly 9-hour flight and then did little when he began sexually assaulting a teen girl and her mother, according to legal papers.
Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
When the mom complained, a flight attendant blew her off, telling her to “be patient.”
The unidentified man, who “mumbled” that he was from Connecticut, gave the mother and daughter a brief reprieve by heading to the bathroom to “loudly” puke before returning with a glass of wine, they contend.
Rather than move the man to a different seat, a flight attendant allegedly told him to “stop talking” to the victims, prompting an enraged, profanity-laced outburst from the drunk, who called mom and her kid “f–king bitches.”
Delta declined to comment on the allegations in the suit.
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The teen began to have a panic attack and put her head down in her mom’s lap, only to “feel the intoxicated Delta passenger’s clammy fingers underneath her shirt climbing up her back … fingering her bra strap and moving over her body,” according to the $2 million lawsuit.
She jumped out of her seat crying, and the drunk passenger then allegedly reached over and put his hand up the mother’s leg before she screamed at him to stop and also jumped out of her seat.
The mother demanded a Delta flight attendant contact the police but was told to “calm down and think about it.” The victims then switched seats for the rest of the flight.
When the plane landed, the flight attendants offered 5,000 free airline miles as an apology.
Delta declined to comment on the lawsuit but insisted it “has zero tolerance for customers who engage in inappropriate or unlawful behavior.”
Yeah! Sounds like it!
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I have for many years now been begging people to avoid daycare centres where men, or a man, are working. This is why. Men have no business caring for little children who are not their own. 1600 offenses are just unbelievable. This man must never see the light of day again in his miserable life.
I would really like to see countries forbid male daycare workers.
Former Australian childcare worker charged with more than
1,600 sexual abuse offenses
Unnamed suspect faces mountain of charges in sex crimes against 91 children
By A.L. Lee
Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Australian police on Tuesday announced charges against a former childcare worker in connection with the suspected sexual abuse of 91 young girls at early learning facilities across Brisbane and Sydney for more than a decade.
Australian Federal Police officials withheld the name of the 45-year-old Gold Coast man accused of 1,623 separate offenses, including 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of having sex with children under 10 years old.
Authorities described the alleged crimes as "horrific" and "unfathomable," claiming the suspect filmed himself committing rapes and other sex crimes inside the facilities before uploading the videos to the dark web.
The victims were pre-pubescent girls at the time, but are now all more than 18 years old, authorities said, adding that 87 survivors had been identified so far, including all the victims in Australia.
The man -- who was taken into custody a year ago in Queensland -- used digital cameras and his cellphone to record the acts during his employment with 10 childcare centers in Brisbane between 2007 to 2013 and 2018 to 2022, police said.
At the time of the man's arrest, authorities seized more than 4,000 images and videos of the alleged abuses, resulting in charges on two counts of making child exploitation material and one count of using a carriage service for child abuse material.
The suspect also faces charges in connection with abuses at a foreign daycare facility in 2013 and 2014, where four children were abused, and another early learning center in Sydney between 2014 and 2017.
Investigators said evidence showed he worked at several other childcare sites where he did not offend.
"It's beyond the realms of anyone's imagination what this person did to these children," said New South Wales police force Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald. "I can only say, you try not to be shocked after a long period of time in the police and crime reporting, but this is a horrific case."
Last August, police launched Operation Tenterfield after they discovered the illicit content on the dark web and traced the image metadata back to a childcare center in Brisbane, where some of the files were created.
Days later, federal agents arrested the suspect in the middle of the night at a suburban home in southwest Brisbane. After going through the man's mobile devices, police said they uncovered additional morbid recordings that dated back at least 15 years.
Over the past year, detectives have worked tirelessly in an effort to contact the victims in hopes of bringing closure to the case.
"These are horrific crimes (but) the AFP never gave up, and our partners never gave up, in terms of identifying all of the children," said AFP Northern Assistant Commissioner Justine Gough. "We are highly confident that all of the children who are subject to the recorded child abuse material have been identified and contact made with parents."
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FBI: Woman kidnapped, raped, kept in cinderblock cell
The FBI says there may be more victims across nearly a dozen states
where Negasi Zuberi once lived.
Dana Haynes Aug 2, 2023
Inside the cinderblock cell in Negasi Zuberi's house.
Outside the cinderblock cell in Negasi Zuberi's house.
FBI
Local, state and federal law enforcement officials are asking for the public’s help in identifying potential victims of a violent sex assault offender who has lived in at least 10 states, including in the Portland area.
At a press conference held Wednesday, Aug. 2, Stephanie Shark, FBI special agent in charge, laid out the details of the July 16 arrest of Negasi Zuberi, 29, in Klamath Falls. Zuberi allegedly kidnapped a woman in Seattle on July 15, drove her for seven hours to his home, where he assaulted her, and locked her in what authorities call “makeshift cinder block cell" with a metal door and a single light bulb.
“Some cases alarm even the most seasoned of investigators, particularly when shocking details are revealed and we see that there may be multiple victims,” Shark said. “This is that kind of case.”
According to the victim, once he arrived at his home in Klamath Falls, Zuberi moved her into a makeshift cell that he had constructed in his garage.
“The woman fought for her life, beating on the doors of the cell with bloody hands,” Shark said. “Sadly, we believe there are more victims, as well as persons out there who may have vital information.”
The victim "bravely escaped her terrifying circumstances,” said Shark, who previously served in the FBI’s counterterrorism division. The victim has not been identified, but Shark said she is physically OK and is receiving victim services.
The FBI is asking anyone who knows anything about Zuberi go visit fbi.gov/ZuberiVictims or call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). People also can contact the FBI Portland Field Office at 503-224-4181
“She forced her way out of that cell,” said Capt. Rob Reynolds of the Klamath Falls Police Department. “If she didn’t do what she did, we wouldn’t be here today and Zuberi would not be in custody.”
After escaping the cell, the woman was able to flag down a passing motorist who called 9-1-1.
Zuberi is known by several aliases, including Sakima, Justin Hyche and Justin Kouassi. He was captured July 16 in Reno, Nevada, after a standoff with police. Shark said Zuberi was identified based on information provided by the victim. He is being held in federal custody on charges of interstate kidnapping. Shark said he has only been in Oregon for a few months and has lived in nearly a dozen other states.
Zuberi has lived in 10 states over the last 10 years and FBI investigators have reason to believe there could be additional sexual assault victims. Those states could include: California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Alabama, and Nevada.
Authorities said Zuberi may have used several different methods to gain control of his victims; including by drugging their drinks and impersonating a police officer. The victims are often threatened with retaliation if they notify the police.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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