Calgary shrink faces 20 more counts of sex attacks on patients
CALGARY – A controversial former South African apartheid regime shrink who practiced in Calgary has now been charged with 21 counts of sexual assault against patients who he examined or those who were sent to him by the courts.
Calgary Police said Aubrey Levin, 71, faces an additional 20 charges as a result of a flood of patients who complained to police that they too had been assaulted.
The flood of complaints came in after a single charge was laid against Levin on March 23.
“Following a four-month investigation, the Calgary Police Service Sex Crimes Unit has laid additional charges against a local psychiatrist,” police said in a statement.
“Following this charge (the first case), the Sex Crimes Unit was approached by numerous people alleging they, too, were sexually assaulted by Levin during counseling sessions or court-ordered visits. These assaults allegedly occurred at LEVIN’s Peter Lougheed Centre office or examination rooms.”
“As a result, investigators have identified 20 additional complainants and have charged Levin with 20 counts of sexual assault. This brings to 21 the number of complainants and charges against Levin.”
Levin, a faculty member at Calgary University, who also had a private practice, was picked up by Calgary Police and slapped with a charge of repeated sexual assault on a 36-year-old patient in March.
According to news accounts from England and South Africa, which Levin has fought for several years, the doctor migrated to Canada as the apartheid regime collapsed. He has previously sued some media who wrote about his work in South Africa dealing with gays.
Apparently, he had claimed to be able to cure homosexuality while working in South Africa with the former military of the apartheid regime.
The first charge against him alleged sexual assault on a male patient.
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on Jul 30 2010. Filed under LATEST FROM VANCOUVER.
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