Aussie doctor imprisoned for genital mutilation

SYDNEY—A former Australian gynecologist has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for mutilating a patient’s genitals and indecently assaulting two other patients.

Graeme Reeves was sentenced in a Sydney court on Friday after a judge found him guilty of assaulting two patients during internal examinations. Earlier, a jury convicted him of inflicting grievous bodily harm by removing a patient’s clitoris during surgery in 2002 to remove a lesion from her labia.

Reeves has denied the accusations.

The court was told he was suffering from depression at the time of the offenses, which occurred in the east coast country town of Bega.