A paediatrician at a hospital near Berlin has been charged with sex offences in 130 cases, many of which are said to have taken place at the hospital, prosecutors said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The extent of the offences, which include serious sexual abuse of children and rape, had previously been unknown. The paediatrician has been in pre-trial custody since November, with prosecutors citing a risk of reoffending as a reason for the man\u2019s continued detention.<\/p>\n
In January, it became known that the doctor was alleged to have sexually abused a child while on duty at the hospital in Rathenow, west of Berlin. Following a complaint by the child\u2019s mother, the police carried out searches, with investigators seizing numerous data storage devices.<\/p>\n
The Potsdam public prosecutor\u2019s office then investigated whether there were further victims.<\/p>\n
The 130 offences charged on May 6 are alleged to have taken place between early December 2013 and November 2025, according to the prosecutor\u2019s office. \u201cThe accused is alleged to have committed the majority of the offences in the course of his professional duties,\u201d the office said.<\/p>\n
The Havelland Kliniken, a group that runs several hospitals in the region including the one in Rathenow, has said that the accusations are undermining the trust of patients, and set up a hotline for people to call in with tip-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A paediatrician at a hospital near Berlin has been charged with sex offences in 130 cases, many of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18,5,15582,75,15580,15581,82,15583,15584,645,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-13432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-havelland-kliniken","11":"tag-hospital","12":"tag-potsdam","13":"tag-potsdam-public-prosecutors-office","14":"tag-prosecutors","15":"tag-rathenow","16":"tag-sex-offences","17":"tag-sexual-abuse","18":"tag-wednesday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}