Scammer
Banned
A child psychiatrist from St-Eustache, Que., has admitted to having sex with a former patient who he was treating for depression and suicidal tendencies.
Quebec's College of Physicians said Dr. Maurice Benjamin's actions were clearly wrong, particularly given the patient's troubled past, and Benjamin agrees.
The doctor pleaded guilty to the allegations and told the college his former patient was clearly vulnerable, what he did was wrong, and he's ready to retire.
The college has given him a three-month suspension and ordered an ad be published in the local newspaper, making its decision public.
That incident happened in the 1980s, after the young female patient had suffered through several traumatic experiences.
She found her mother dead when she was just eight or nine years old. The patient also had sexual contact with two relatives, and later she found a fellow teenager hanged.
The patient went to see Dr. Benjamin between 1978 and 1981 to be treated for depression and suicidal tendencies at a hospital in Montreal's Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood.
Benjamin stopped treating her, but a few years later when she was 19 years old, the two had what the college describes as "sexual relations" once.
Dr. Benjamin's lawyer said the doctor, now in his 70s, is well respected and helped found a child psychiatry clinic in St-Eustache.
Quebec's College of Physicians said Dr. Maurice Benjamin's actions were clearly wrong, particularly given the patient's troubled past, and Benjamin agrees.
The doctor pleaded guilty to the allegations and told the college his former patient was clearly vulnerable, what he did was wrong, and he's ready to retire.
The college has given him a three-month suspension and ordered an ad be published in the local newspaper, making its decision public.
That incident happened in the 1980s, after the young female patient had suffered through several traumatic experiences.
She found her mother dead when she was just eight or nine years old. The patient also had sexual contact with two relatives, and later she found a fellow teenager hanged.
The patient went to see Dr. Benjamin between 1978 and 1981 to be treated for depression and suicidal tendencies at a hospital in Montreal's Rivière-des-Prairies neighbourhood.
Benjamin stopped treating her, but a few years later when she was 19 years old, the two had what the college describes as "sexual relations" once.
Dr. Benjamin's lawyer said the doctor, now in his 70s, is well respected and helped found a child psychiatry clinic in St-Eustache.
