A doctor working in a private clinic in Oujda has been sentenced to three years in prison for charges of sexual harassment agains’t a patient’s visitor. The verdict was delivered by the misdemeanor room in Oujda elementary school on Friday morning after a trial that lasted over 12 hours.
In addition to the prison sentence, the court imposed a fine of 10,000 dirhams, and ordered the accused to pay 50,000 dirhams in financial compensation to the plaintiff and 20,000 dirhams to her husband, Hespress reported.
The trial, which had been postponed twice before, heard from all parties, including the accused who denied the allegations against him. The court reviewed surveillance footage from the doctor’s office on the date of the incident, which was presented as evidence during the third session of the trial.
The accused doctor was arrested on Tuesday after being questioned by the prosecutor, alongside the plaintiff and her husband. The doctor was charged with sexual harassment and psychological violence against a woman because of her gender.
It is worth noting that the accused has previously faced multiple allegations of harassment, leading to a disciplinary penalty and a year-long suspension from work in 2021, which ended in September.
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