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An organisation
encouraging former Lake Alice Hospital patients to complain to police about a
psychiatrist who they say abused them is heartened by an Australian court
decision against him. The Melbourne County Court has awarded $55,000 in
damages to a woman who complained that Dr Selwyn Leeks sexually abused her
while she was his patient in 1979 and 1980. Leeks was in charge of the child
and adolescent unit at the now-closed Lake Alice Hospital near Bulls from
1972 to 1977. Steve Green, of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, which
instigated the laying of 34 complaints from New Zealand, said he was heartened
by the court's decision. |
