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Julian Kent

The Advertiser (source:https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/)
BEAST ON THE COUCH
November 18, 2017
By Nigel Hunt

— Excerpt

An Adelaide psychiatrist who sexually abused three of his vulnerable patients
has been banned for life, after a lengthy investigation by police and the state’s medical board.

Dr Julian Kent, right, pleaded guilty to professional misconduct over the shocking abuse, which happened over a 12-year period and inflicted further psychological damage to his victims. In one of the worst cases of misconduct uncovered in the profession in Adelaide, the SA Health Practitioners Tribunal permanently disqualified Dr Kent from applying for registration after hearing graphic evidence of his sexual liaisons with three women.

The tribunal heard he had relationships with the patients over a 12-year period from 2000-12. Two of the victims were regularly abused in his Byron St, Glenelg, consulting rooms while the third was abused at her home, at his home, in his car and in public places…