Preliminary hearing scheduled for doc charged with sexual assault
By Peggy Revell on February 21, 2018.
Medicine Hat News The case of a Medicine Hat doctor charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a person with a disability will be heading to a preliminary inquiry this summer. An agent acting on behalf of the accused’s Calgary-based defence counsel appeared before the Medicine Hat Provincial Court on Tuesday, electing the case be heard before a Queen’s Bench Judge, with a preliminary hearing set for June. 26. The charges against the doctor come from an alleged incident in June 2017, when an adult male patient attended a walk-in medical appointment and was sexually assaulted. Police announced charges against Dr. Ian Gebhardt, 55, who practised at the Crescent Heights Family Medical Clinic, but has since withdrawn from practice. 6-5
