A pediatrician accused of sexually assaulting a patient could have offended against eight more children, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Chia Liang Saw appeared via video-link in Perth Magistrate’s Court on Monday in the hope of applying for bail, but the application wasn’t heard.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old was charged in late May with persistent sexual conduct with a child under 16 and possessing child exploitation material.<\/p>\n
The offences allegedly happened at his place of work in a hospital.<\/p>\n
A hidden camera in a Perth examination room captured Saw’s alleged offending, the court heard.<\/p>\n
A police prosecutor told Magistrate Janelle Scutt that any bail application would be strongly opposed and investigations into Saw’s alleged conduct were ongoing.<\/p>\n
Detectives were yet to interview five more potential victims, with the possibility that three more could be added to the list.<\/p>\n
The total number of victims could be nine, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Saw is also set to be charged with four counts of indecent dealing with a child under 13, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Scutt said the court would not consider Saw’s bail application until more details about his alleged offending could be considered.<\/p>\n
She urged the police to complete their investigation as quickly as possible, stating Saw had a right to know what he was accused of.<\/p>\n
The matter was adjourned until June 19 in the same court.<\/p>\n
Saw, a developmental pediatrician, specialised in behavioural issues affecting children and operated from various locations in Perth, police previously said.<\/p>\n
His medical registration has been suspended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pediatrician accused of sexually assaulting a patient could have offended against eight more children, a court has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25009,823,25006,335,25008,25007],"class_list":["post-26907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-chia-liang-saw","tag-child-exploitation","tag-magistrate-janelle-scutt","tag-perth","tag-perth-magistrate39s-court","tag-police-prosecutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}