Former St George doctor John Kearsley has faced Sutherland Local Court today accused of indecently assaulting the daughter of an prostate cancer patient.
Keasley, 65, was charged in July last year with two counts of indecent assault relating to an incident with a woman in 2012.
The woman, 54, who cannot be named for legal reasons, first contacted police about the incident in October 2015 and made a formal statement to police soon after.
According to the agreed statement of facts a meeting was organised between Kearsley and the woman to discuss her father’s health for a journal article.
The pair were due to meet at a cafe near St George Hospital on December 28, 2012, but Kearsley emailed a request to meet at his office instead.
After the meeting and a tour of the Cancer Care Clinic he asked her ‘Didn’t your mother have breast cancer?’
He subsequently offered her a breast examination which she accepted.
It was soon after that he allegedly squeezed her breasts and touched her nipples.
During a hearing at the Sutherland Local Court on Thursday his defence applied to have the matter dealt with under the Mental Health Act.
The case has been adjourned to August 14.
He dodged waiting media as he left the courthouse, refusing to comment.
Kearsley was the director of radiation oncology at St George Hospital at the time.
He has not worked at St George Hospital since he was charged with separate offences in February 2014. His employment was terminated in October 2015.
