A physiotherapist is accused of having sex with his patient, who is also a close family friend, just hours after treating her for an injury. On December 30, 2013, the 45-year-old physiotherapist provided his ninth treatment to his 22-year-old female patient for a shoulder injury. The physiotherapist's lawyer Christopher Stevenson said the woman's treatment had "well and truly ceased"when they began their intimate relationship and both had consented. He said a physiotherapist needed to wait for a minimum of three months but up to six months before beginning an intimate relationship with a patient. In her closing submissions, Ms Schmidt-McCleave said 12 hours wasn't enough time to dissolve the power imbalance between a physiotherapist and a patient when beginning an intimate relationship.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 29, 2016 00:54 UTC