{"id":90834,"date":"2025-07-25T07:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90834\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:51:10","slug":"new-charges-for-junior-doctor-accused-of-filming-colleagues-in-austin-hospital-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90834\/","title":{"rendered":"New charges for junior doctor accused of filming colleagues in Austin Hospital toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A trainee surgeon who was arrested after a camera was allegedly found in a staff toilet at a major Melbourne hospital is now facing more charges, with detectives expanding their probe to include other hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ryan Cho, 27, has been charged with a further five offences including producing intimate images, using an optical surveillance device and failing to assist police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Earlier this month, the junior doctor, who was employed at The Austin Hospital, was <a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-10\/police-charge-junior-doctor-melbourne-hospital-bathroom-camera\/105515408\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/105515408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged with stalking and using an optical surveillance device<\/a> after his colleagues found a camera allegedly recording them in a restricted staff toilet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Records on the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) reveal Dr Cho is currently suspended and cannot practice in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police said &#8220;several additional hospitals&#8221; where Dr Cho worked between 2020 and 2025 had been identified as &#8220;workplaces of interest&#8221; as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;These hospitals are located in Melbourne&#8217;s CBD and regional Victoria,&#8221; a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Police have begun the process of contacting the additional hospitals and those potentially impacted during the time of the man&#8217;s employment. This process is due to take some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-10\/police-charge-junior-doctor-melbourne-hospital-bathroom-camera\/105515408\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police arrest junior doctor<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Detectives have charged a trainee surgeon with stalking after his colleagues found a camera allegedly recording them in a staff toilet at a major hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Austin Health chief executive Jodie Geissler said the Austin Hospital was working closely with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">\u00a0&#8220;This has been an incredibly distressing situation for our staff, and their safety and wellbeing is our absolute priority,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Right now, our focus is on caring for our staff. We have comprehensive support services in place and are doing everything we can to help them through this challenging time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Dr Cho has been stood down from Austin Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 27-year-old is understood to have worked at the Royal Melbourne Hospital between February 2024 and February 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Royal Melbourne Hospital spokeswoman said the hospital had been in contact with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The RMH takes the wellbeing and safety of our staff very seriously,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trainee surgeon who was arrested after a camera was allegedly found in a staff toilet at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[60389,4740,34144,5022,18929,50,7207,60387,60388,39561],"class_list":{"0":"post-90834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ahpra","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-camera","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-melbourne","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-ryan-cho","16":"tag-staff-toilet","17":"tag-the-austin-hospital"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114912788129184856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}