Nasreen Roberts

Calgary Herald
Child psychiatrist pleads guilty to sexual assault over affair with former patient
By Kevin Martin
November 18, 2021

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It was a May-October romance, but not the kind found in Harlequin novels or on Hollywood screens.

He had just turned 18, having gone to her as a youth for counselling for self-esteem issues.

She was a successful and married adolescent psychiatrist in her mid-40s.

“It is at the highest level of a breach of trust,” Calgary provincial court Judge John Bascom said Wednesday, after hearing details of Dr. Nasreen Roberts’ sexual relationship with her former vulnerable patient and agreeing to sentence her to a period of house arrest and curfew.

Roberts, 73, pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual assault in connection with incidents between 1994 and 1998, while she was practicing at the Foothills Medical Centre…