NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A hospital doctor has been summonsed to hear molestation charges after a group of women employees accused him of fondling their breasts during an annual health checkup at a factory in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Sung Noen district.
Pol Lt Col Trakarn Saksrikrom, the investigation officer at Sung Noen police station handling the case, on Wednesday issued a summons for the accused doctor after questioning the factory workers. All gave similar accounts.
On Tuesday evening, 11 women employees of the Siam Fukoku factory in Sung Noen district filed a complaint with local police that a doctor at a hospital in downtown Nakhon Ratchasima had molested them.
The women claimed the doctor fondled their breasts during their annual company health examination. The doctor's name has not been released.
The alleged incidents happened at the factory's premises in Navanakorn Industrial Estate, Sung Noen district on Nov 17. Several hundred employees, men and women, had health checkups that day.
The complainants told police the doctor had unzipped their workshop uniforms to breast level without seeking their permission, or saying anything. The doctor then used his fingers to feel around their breasts, raising their suspicions, because what he did was unusual, the women said.
Previously, doctors sent to perform health checkups at the factory had used a stethoscope. They did not fondle their breasts like the accused doctor did, the complainants said.
They said the annual checkups covered 15 health risks, but did not include breast cancer.
Before filing the complaint, they had questiond female colleagues and found the accused doctor had not fondled all women employees. Only good-looking ones had their breasts caressed. This prompted them to find the complaint.
Two women give their accounts to a police officer as they and nine other factory workers file a complaint against a hospital doctor in Nakhon Ratchasima for allegedly fondling their breasts during the annual employee health checkup. (Photo by Prasit Tangprasert)
