Assault case

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thanks 4 passing this on. all i did was read it and i am queasy. yuk. Lynn

 

[alonmarcus] wrote:

 

Hi Phil

I wander what you know (or any of the Irish on the list) about this guy, he has

been trashing Miriam Lee and her students.

 

Acupuncturist jailed for three

years for filming his patients

by Tomas Mac Ruairi

A TAIWANESE acupuncturist who secretly filmed partially-clothed female patients

has been jailed for three years by Judge Kieran O'Connor at Dublin Circuit

Criminal Court.

Palden Carson, with a former address at Walker's Cottages, Ranelagh, Dublin and

later at 29 Mauratina Buildings, 4 Jardine Road, London E19 WB, England, pleaded

guilty to sexually assaulting two patients at his Ranelagh clinic on dates in

1996.

Judge O'Connor directed that £15,000 compensation offered by Carson to his

victims should be divided equally between them. The cheques were handed over in

court by defence solicitor Robert Eager.

Defence counsel, Patrick Gageby SC, told Judge O'Connor the £15,000 offered the

victims was not meant as compensation, but, was an earnest sign of Carson's

remorse. It didn't affect their right to bring civil claims. The court heard at

least one of the victims was instituting civil litigation.

Judge O'Connor also revoked an earlier order prohibiting publication of the

47-year-old single man's name and address. The victims are in their early

twenties and their identities cannot be revealed without their authority.

Prosecuting counsel, Tom O'Connell BL, said the only grounds on which the court

had the power to prevent the media naming Carson was if by doing so any of the

victims could be identified. Carson had more than 1,200 patients so that didn't

arise.

Judge O'Connor directed that Carson's sentence was to date from February 7 last,

when he was taken into custody on an extradition order and was to be suspended

from December 14 next, when he is to leave Ireland. If he didn't leave Ireland

voluntarily he would serve the full sentence.

Mr Gageby (with Michael O'Higgins BL) said Carson was a naturalised Irish

citizen, but, would leave the country as soon as possible.

Judge O'Connor told Carson: " We don't want your type in this country. You were

welcomed here and became a citizen, but, you behaved despicably and abused the

trust placed in you " .

Throughout the sentence hearing, Carson's brother sat behind defence counsel

dressed in the ceremonial robes of an Oxford graduate of philosophy and with

variously his left and right white-gloved hand raised.

Mr Gageby told Judge O'Connor that his client's brother wanted to address the

court, but, as defence counsel he had decided he wasn't going to call him again,

because, he didn't consider he had anything useful to add to what he said at a

previous hearing.

Judge O'Connor told Carson it was fortunate for him that he pleaded guilty, or

he would have imposed the maximum five years sentence permitted by law for this

offence. He accepted Carson was a good acupuncturist, but, he had brought the

work into disrepute by his despicable abuse of trust.

" I am surprised you have no previous convictions, because, it appears to me you

have some form of repressed sexual desires which you fulfilled in the way

described in this case " , said Judge O'Connor.

At an earlier hearing in June, the defendant's brother - a qualified medical

specialist - said he wanted to apologise on behalf of the family to the victims.

His brother had brought disgrace on himself and the family.

He said the family originated in East Tibet, but, moved many years ago to

Taiwan, where they were reared. Their father was now elderly and quite ill in

Canada, but, was formerly a US Airforce B52 bomber pilot in World War II.

The court heard Carson qualified as a doctor in Taiwan, but, failed 11 times in

surgery examinations in Ireland. He came here in 1984 and achieved a high

reputation as an acupuncturist, with a client list of some 1,240.

Detective Sergeant George McGeary said Carson made video recordings of naked

female patients and could be seen on some of the tapes masturbating himself. A

total of 12 different females were recorded on two video-tapes handed to one

victim's family by Carson. Some of the women identified on videos declined to

assist in the garda investigation.

The women were unaware they had been video-recorded by Carson, who had them wear

vibrating goggles with opaque glass, claiming this would relax them for the

needles used in acupuncture.

Det Sgt McGeary said the case might not have come to light but for the fact that

one of the two victims observed a camcorder in Carson's hand through a gap in

the goggles. Carson had first explained different matters about the body and

acupuncture to this woman. He told her to undress and put her lying on her

stomach, telling her massage was part of the treatment. He first massaged her

back with oil and then pulled down her panties and massaged her buttocks. He

then turned her over, put the goggles on her and proceeded to massage her

breasts, groin area and her inner thighs.

After he inserted the acupuncture needles all over her body, his doorbell rang

and it was when he returned that she saw the camcorder in one of his hands and

an incense type of stick used to heat needles in the other. He drew the stick'

up and down her body from her breasts to her groin area.

Det Sgt McGeary said the woman was extremely distressed and was " in a most awful

state when she reached her mother. " She lodged a complaint with the gardaí some

hours later. Two days later, Carson was interviewed by the now-retired Det Sgt

Brendan McGlynn.

Carson went immediately to that victim's family begging forgiveness and asking

them to withdraw the complaint. He also handed over two video-tapes, though the

victim couldn't identify herself on either of them.

While in the woman's house, Carson became hysterical and banged his head several

times off a door as well as slapping his head forcibly with his hands while

repeating: " I am a very bad man " . He attempted to destroy one video tape, but,

it was rescued by a family member.

Det Sgt McGeary said the family....