A suspended sentence handed out to a 26-year-old Danish man convicted of indecent assault in Malta has angered Danish campaigners anxious to stop a predator who they tell Malta Today might already have 200 victims in five different countries.
It is believed in the majority of the cases that the man, who has not been named by the Danish media and instead dubbed ‘Stethoscope Man’, told the young women, some of whom were under the age of 16, that they need a standard medical certificate for insurance purposes, often to join some sort of agency.
Assaults in five countries
It is believed he has assaulted women in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria and Malta, and on occasion pretended to be a doctor, teacher or physiotherapist.
A Danish Facebook page drawing attention to his activities, which has named him, has 4,537 likes. When convicted of 27 charges at a court in Herning in August 2013, he was sentenced to three months in prison, serving just one.
Illegally used a hospital
And then in Malta this month, he was fined 2,300 euros and given a two-year suspended sentence for indecently assaulting three women in a Maltese hospital, where he used a consultation room to carry out the examinations.
They raised the alarm after he handed them a note on official hospital paper saying: “You need a boyfriend who gives you a massage every day.”
Questions are being asked in the Maltese media, where ‘Stethoscope Man’ has been identified, about how his lawyer argued in his defence that it was all a misunderstanding as he is a qualified doctor in Denmark.
