Anaesthetist Edward Finn jailed after sexually assaulting young girl admitted for operation
An anaesthetist who sexually assaulted a young girl under 13 and made indecent and voyeuristic photographs of children and adults has been jailed for eight years.
Edward Finn, 36, was found to have images showing him sexually assaulting a young girl at King’s Mill Hospital in Nottinghamshire after she’d been admitted for an operation.
Photographs of the genitals of a woman who was being treated at the Royal Derby Hospital were also discovered.
During sentencing, Judge Michael Auty KC said: “People are understandably fearful in medical situations, and what you have done is going to irreparably damage, I suspect, the confidence and trust that society must inevitably place in the medical profession.”
Judge Auty also acknowledged how Finn had plainly abused his position as a doctor by taking the indecent photographs. He said: “I find it difficult to imagine a more gross breach of trust in a doctor than this.”
Finn, an anaesthetist who worked across hospitals in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, was also made subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order, a restraining order and was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely when he was sentenced on 28 June.
Finn had a duty to look after those in his care but instead, he betrayed his patients’ trust and abused his position of power as a doctor to take advantage of their vulnerability. I hope this sentencing will encourage any other victims to come forward to the police to report what has happened to them.
You may be entitled to a civil claim for compensation in circumstances where a medical practitioner uses their position to sexually abuse patients, enabling you to access funding for therapy and losses as a result of abuse experienced.
Anyone who has suffered abuse in a healthcare setting can contact me directly for free, no-obligation, advice about their rights.