A doctor has fronted court charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls and a woman at three Melbourne medical clinics in the past 42 years.
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Hoong Pan Sze-Tho, 72, faces 19 charges including rape, carnal knowledge, sexual penetration of a child under 16, and attempting to procure a female to become a prostitute.
The charges relate to alleged offending at two Wantirna South clinics in the 1970s and early 1980s, and alleged offending at a Roxburgh Park clinic between 2002 and 2004.
In charge sheets tendered to Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday, police allege Dr Sze-Tho had carnal knowledge and indecently assaulted a woman in Wantirna South in October 1974. He is also charged with assaulting the woman.
He is also accused of sexually assaulting a girl at another clinic in the same suburb between July 1978 and July 1979, and between January 1980 and June 1981.
Dr Sze-Tho is alleged to have raped another teenage girl in Roxburgh Park between November 2002 and November 2004.
The doctor, of Clifton Hill, has been suspended from practising by the Medical Board of Australia.
He did not say anything during a short appearance on Friday and was bailed to return to court in September.
With Rania Spooner
