Ex-Bermuda leader’s son sentenced in California

LOS ANGELES —The physician son of Bermuda’s former premier was sentenced Friday to 12½ years in state prison for fondling female patients during breast and pelvic exams.

Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said Kevin Antario Brown preyed upon vulnerable patients.

Brown, however, denied any wrongdoing and said at the hearing he’s not a sexual deviant.

“I know who I am,” Brown said. “I am not the man they made up.”

Brown, 40, was found guilty in August of more than 20 counts, including sexual battery, sexual exploitation and committing a lewd act. A jury deadlocked on eight other charges.

Brown attacked 11 patients over five years at three of his clinic, prosecutors said. Among his victims were a 15-year-old girl and an undercover police officer.

One of the women testified before sentencing that she went into deep depression and had flashbacks when Brown sexually assaulted her in April 2008.

Brown “ripped my life apart and shattered my confidence in myself and my judgment of others by molesting me in his office and forcibly raping me in my own home,” she said.

Brown, whose father Ewart Brown stepped down as Bermuda’s premier last year, was known for his charity work. His health institute benefited from a 2008 celebrity poker tournament at the Playboy Mansion.

Brown’s father was at the hearing as were other family members and former patients who had glowing remarks about the physician.

Brown was acquitted in 2004 and 2006 of similar charges. A motion for a new trial in the current case was denied by Pastor.