For 16 Years, Too Scared to Speak Out, Theresa Lived with the Misery of Having Been Molested by a Respected Doctor - Who'd Attacked Up to 300 Other Victims. Yesterday, She Finally Made Him Pay . . .
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THERESA GAMMON was indecently assaulted 16 years ago. The shocking and degrading act did not happen in some dark alley, but on a hot summer's day in the private consulting rooms of a respected neurologist.
The young bank clerk had been sent to the old-fashioned office in her home town of Swansea, South Wales, to be examined following a car crash.See the full content of this document
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For 16 Years, Too Scared to Speak Out, Theresa Lived with the Misery of Having Been Molested by a Respected Doctor - Who'd Attacked Up to 300 Other Victims. Yesterday, She Finally Made Him Pay . . .
It should have been a routine appointment (at Pounds 55 a time) to investigate a whiplash injury to her neck. But as she lay on Dr Brian Phillips' examining couch, the elderly doctor suddenly thrust his hands inside her bra and squeezed her breasts hard, before putting his hand down the front of her knickers.
'I knew it was wrong but I didn't know how to say so,' she says now. 'I had been referred to him as a professional in his field. It is not easy for a part-time bank clerk to challenge an establishment figure over something that lasted maybe three minutes.' Cowed into silence by Dr Phillips' kudos in the community, she told only her husband and her mother w...See the full content of this document
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