Sex offender doctors can't be banned in case it breaches human rights

[Jazzy]

The GMC said it could not impose an automatic ban on doctors convicted of sex offences as this would risk breaching human rights legislation.



Dozens of convicted sex offenders are working as doctors, it has emerged.

At least 31 men are practising as GPs, consultants and surgeons despite having convictions for assaulting women, possessing child pornography or soliciting prostitutes.



Their patients are unaware of their criminal histories.



The General Medical Council said it was unable to ban medics for being on the sex offenders’ register as it had been advised that such a move would not be compatible with human rights legislation.



The doctors include one who was convicted of sexually assaulting two colleagues and one who downloaded child sex stories and read them on his home computer while working with children as a GP.



One anaesthetist carried on working after a three-month suspension for squeezing the breast of a junior colleague.



Of the 31, four have committed sexual assaults, four have convictions for child pornography offences, two were guilty of voyeurism or exposure offences and 21 solicited prostitutes or were caught kerb-crawling, according to figures obtained by the Daily Mail.



Ten of the offenders were able to treat patients, including children, without any sanctions.

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What about the human rights of patients to know a sex offender doctor is treating them or their loved ones?

 

[The Dragon Master]

This gets me so angry

I fucking hate the Human Right Act when this sort of articles comes to light. The people who write these acts probably were never victims of serious crimes. Criminals have more human rights than what the average law abiding citizen has, it's ridiculous. They should be struck of the register automatically, and the two finger salute shoved in the face of criminals human rights.

 

[Evil Eye]

Why is soliciting prostitutes a sex offence?

Grouping that with child pornography seems a little odd.



That aside, yes, this is rather wrong and definitely shouldn't be happening.