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April 10, 2006

Doctor denies fondling patient

WARWICK -- Dr. Russel J. Aubin took the stand today in his sex-assault trial, flatly denying that he ever fondled the breasts of the patient who has accused him.

In more than three hours of testimony today, Aubin, 40, of Jamestown, said he treated the patient normally and touched her only to place electrodes on her chest and to massage her neck while she underwent knee surgery.

After the December 2004 procedure at Kent Hospital in Warwick, the 21-year-old woman complained she had been assaulted, and Aubin's license to practice medicine was revoked.

Aubin was the last witness called in his two-week trial in Kent County Superior Court. The case goes to the jury tomorrow.

-- Journal staff writer Zachary R. Mider

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 5:03 PM | Permalink

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