An Oamaru doctor will go on trial next year over several charges of indecent assault. Stephen James Dawson (59) will face trial on seven charges - five of indecent assault, one of attempting to have exploitative sexual connection with a person with significant impairment, and another charge of exploitatively doing an indecent act with a person with significant impairment. Name suppression was lifted in the Timaru District Court on Monday. All other details of Monday’s hearing are statutorily suppressed.
Source: Otago Daily Times October 20, 2017 19:41 UTC