{"id":20581,"date":"2025-07-25T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20581\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:32:08","slug":"new-charges-for-junior-doctor-accused-of-filming-colleagues-in-austin-hospital-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20581\/","title":{"rendered":"New charges for junior doctor accused of filming colleagues in Austin Hospital toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trainee surgeon who was arrested after a camera was allegedly found in a staff toilet at a major Melbourne hospital is now facing more charges, with detectives expanding their probe to include other hospitals.<\/p>\n

Ryan Cho, 27, has been charged with a further five offences including producing intimate images, using an optical surveillance device and failing to assist police.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the junior doctor, who was employed at The Austin Hospital, was charged with stalking and using an optical surveillance device<\/a> after his colleagues found a camera allegedly recording them in a restricted staff toilet.<\/p>\n

Records on the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) reveal Dr Cho is currently suspended and cannot practice in Australia.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police said “several additional hospitals” where Dr Cho worked between 2020 and 2025 had been identified as “workplaces of interest” as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n

“These hospitals are located in Melbourne’s CBD and regional Victoria,” a spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n

“Police have begun the process of contacting the additional hospitals and those potentially impacted during the time of the man’s employment. This process is due to take some time.”<\/p>\n

Police arrest junior doctor<\/a><\/p>\n

Detectives have charged a trainee surgeon with stalking after his colleagues found a camera allegedly recording them in a staff toilet at a major hospital.<\/p>\n

Austin Health chief executive Jodie Geissler said the Austin Hospital was working closely with investigators.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“This has been an incredibly distressing situation for our staff, and their safety and wellbeing is our absolute priority,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Right now, our focus is on caring for our staff. We have comprehensive support services in place and are doing everything we can to help them through this challenging time.”<\/p>\n

Dr Cho has been stood down from Austin Health.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is understood to have worked at the Royal Melbourne Hospital between February 2024 and February 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Royal Melbourne Hospital spokeswoman said the hospital had been in contact with investigators.<\/p>\n

“The RMH takes the wellbeing and safety of our staff very seriously,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trainee surgeon who was arrested after a camera was allegedly found in a staff toilet at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14841,64,63,8046,5315,647,44,1158,21269,21271,21270],"class_list":{"0":"post-20581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-ahpra","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-camera","12":"tag-investigation","13":"tag-melbourne","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-ryan-cho","17":"tag-staff-toilet","18":"tag-the-austin-hospital"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}