Dr Selwyn Leeks faces a second investigation for sexual misconduct

Melbourne, Australia child psychiatrist, Dr Selwyn Leeks, faces a second investigation by the Victorian Medical Practitioners Board, as well as possible criminal charges in New Zealand. Dr Leeks is already being investigated by the board following claims that he allowed children to be punished with electric shock treatment and pain-inducing injections while in charge of a psychiatric hospital unit in NZ in the 1970s.

Now a former female patient has accused the Cheltenham-based doctor of sexual misconduct when he treated her for anxiety in Melbourne in 1979-80. Outlining the allegations for the first time, the former patient told The Sunday Age that over several visits Dr Leeks had asked her to sit on his knee, fondled her and requested sexual acts. The woman, who did not wish to be identified, said she had given the Victorian Medical Practitioners Board a statement and was interviewed by an official from the board last month.