A doctor obsessed with child pornography sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl to satisfy his urges a court heard this morning.
Rashid Sandhu is said to have assaulted the girl at the James Paget University Hospital last June as he carried out an authorised medical procedure.
Sandhu, 30, and who was an A&E doctor at the time is alleged to have told the girl that she was pregnant and needed an abortion.
Norwich Crown Court heard that Sandhu took the girl to a hospital office room, asked her to lie on a desk and take her clothes off, he then inserted tubes into her private parts and rub her breast with gel.
At the beginning of the trial the jury heard that Sandhu had pleaded guilty yesterday to possessing more than 170 images of child pornography on his home computer.
The trial heard that Sandhu asked the 13-year-old girl to get on all four during the alleged assault replicating a pose of one of the images that was found on his computer.
Matthew McNiff, prosecuting, said that Sandhu had an unhealthy obsession with child pornography and used the girl to sate his urges.
Mr McNiff said: “He saw an opportunity to pursue this obsession to another level. He chose to act on this deep, dark urge.”
The 13-year-old girl had gone to the James Paget after Sandhu had carried out some tests on her and a friend after they complained of having a urinary tract problem.
Mr McNiff said that Sandhu then rang the 13-year-old's friend and said that both girls needed to return the next day for further treatment and tests because they may be pregnant.
The court heard that official medical records at the time of the tests showed the girls were not pregnant and there was not need for them to return to the hospital the next day.
Sandhu, who lives in Welling, Kent, but formerly of Hopton, near Yarmouth, denies sexually assaulting the 13-year-old girl.
The trial continues.
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