A general practitioner was charged on Friday with raping a female patient and molesting her

Doctor, 66, charged with raping and molesting female patient, 23

Wee Teong Boo, 66, was charged with raping a female patient and molesting her at his Bedok clinic in 2015.ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW.

 

SINGAPORE: A general practitioner was charged on Friday with raping a female patient and molesting her at his clinic in 2015.

No plea was taken from Wee Teong Boo, 66, who allegedly raped the 23-year-old woman at Wee's Clinic & Surgery at Block 418 Bedok North Avenue 2 between 11.30pm on Dec 30, 2015 and 12.30am the next day.

Wee, who operates his clinic at night too, is also accused of molesting her by rubbing her private parts with his hand at the clinic sometime on Nov 25 the same year.

Deputy public prosecutor Sharmila Sripathy-Shanaz successfully applied for a gag order to prevent the publication of any information that may lead to the identity of the victim in the two charges.

She asked for bail of $70,000 (RM221,225).

Wee's lawyer Edmond Pereira told District Judge Christopher Goh that $50,000 (RM158,018) would be sufficient to secure his client's attendance.

He said his client has been helping police in the investigation and he is a Singaporean with his family here.

Wee's passport has been impounded. He will return to court on April 11.

If convicted of rape, he could be jailed for up to 20 years and fined.

The maximum penalty for outrage of modesty is two years' jail, fine, caning or any combined punishment. As he is above 50, no caning will be imposed. – The Straits Times/Asia News Network

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