DUBAI // A 47-year-old Indian man accused of sexually assaulting a woman after hypnotising her said what he did was a vital part of the alternative treatment he was giving her.
Prosecutors charged K S with practising alternative medicine without a licence and sexually assaulting a female patient, charges he denied at Dubai Criminal Court on Tuesday.
Records show that on November 23 last year and before then the defendant had been seeing his countrywoman to give her training in alternative medicine.
“He is well known where I come from in alternative medicine and my father had been visiting him in a clinic here in Jumeirah Lakes Towers, where he received treatment for shoulder problems,” said the 22-year-old woman, S S.
She said K S left the clinic and started practising medicine from his home in Al Quoz until such time as he opened his own clinic. At this time, in September last year, the woman’s father asked KS to give his daughter some proper training.
“I started visiting him in his flat to receive the training and after a few days he allowed me to start diagnosing patients under his supervision,” she said.
“Then, in November, I suffered from some feminine problems therefore I told him so he would treat them.”
She described how he would have her lay down then he would massage her head until she was nearly unconscious, or hypnotised.
“He would touch my body and violate my private parts,” said the woman, who went through the experience three times before she said realised she was being sexually assaulted.
She then reported her trainer to police but during police and prosecution questioning he insisted that what he did was an important part of the treatment and that by doing so he had been activating her hormones.
The next hearing will be on April 19.
salamir@thenational.ae
