A PERVERTED doctor who sexually assaulted female patients as young as eight over a 10-year period has been sentenced to just two years in jail.
Doctor Markandu Ragupathy, of Den Close, Beckenham, preyed on vulnerable patients, touching them for his own sexual gratification, while he worked at Catford’s Torridon Road practice.
But incredibly, despite complaints about his behaviour from the mid-90s, the doctor was allowed to carry on working and his offences continued until 2005.
Woolwich Crown Court heard how one eight-year-old who came in with abdomen pain had her thigh touched by Ragupathy before he put his hand under her knickers.
Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 2:54 am
I was one of the patients he abused and i went through a really hard time in the witness box. I feel completely let down by the pathetic sentence he was given and a the time of his release draws nearer, I am getting veyr distressed yet again! He has ruined lives yet he will serve just one year of his life in prison for his sick crimes, It’s appaling