Gynecologist Convicted of Four Counts of Rape

Charles Momah was convicted today of four counts of rape. The victims were patients of his Seattle-area clinic. Momah also faces civil lawsuits stemming from his alleged permittance of his unlicensed twin brother to act as a stand-in gynecologist.



This is another hideous example of health care practitioners breaking their Hippocratic oath and sexually preying on vulnerable individuals.

Last year, a dentist was found to have injected his own sperm into six female patients' mouths. His license was temporarily suspended, but then reinstated under the condition that he would be supervised when operating on female patients.

Health care professionals require their patients' utmost trust, and such light sentencing in this case and in the dental case sends a bad message to the public and to other shady health care providers. Punishments for these cases need to be doubly severe, in relation to non-health care professionals' similar convictions.



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[edit on 20-11-2005 by asala]

I am sorry to say that I simply could not possibly vote yes for this submission. While a gynecologist abusing his position of trust is a story worth reporting on a general news site -- especially in the specific locale that the incident took place -- this is not a story that I think should be part of ATSNN.

Now if the gynecologist was also an Al Qaeda operative involved in genetic manipulation and was "abusing" the women who were his patients in an effort to mutate their genetic make up to develop an army of little baby terrorists, well fine....that's an ATS/BTS ATSNN story. But not this one.