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Allegations
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The Citizens
Commission on Human Rights, which encouraged former Lake Alice Hospital
patients to complain to police about a psychiatrist they said 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 Selwyn
Leeks sexually abused her while she was his patient in 1979 and 1980. Dr
Leeks was in charge of the child and adolescent unit at Lake Alice between
1972 and 1977. |
