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Dr. Robert Stitt<\/p>\n
He was found to have recorded videos of eight patients, who were in states of undress, via a camera hidden in one of the treatment rooms from late 2023 until early 2024.<\/p>\n
Crown prosecutor Boyd McGill and Stitt\u2019s lawyer, Richard Wolson, said Wednesday the recordings were not made for a sexual purpose. They jointly recommended Stitt be given the conditional discharge, which requires him to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for a year. Provincial court judge Timothy Killeen accepted the recommendation.<\/p>\n
Killeen asked Wolson to explain further why the recordings were made.<\/p>\n
Wolson said \u201cincidents of theft\u201d at Stitt\u2019s practice prompted him to install cameras in the lobby and office rooms, as well as in an overflow treatment room in which he normally didn\u2019t see patients. There were no cameras in the clinic\u2019s main treatment rooms.<\/p>\n
Investigators from the Manitoba Chiropractic Association, the regulatory body of the profession, had gone to Stitt\u2019s clinic on Jan. 19, 2024, to probe an unrelated complaint from a former patient, said McGill, who was reading from an agreed statement of facts.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring this visit, Stitt informed the MCA investigators that he had video footage of the incident being investigated, which he believed would exonerate him, and Stitt disclosed that he had multiple cameras in the office, including in a patient treatment room,\u201d said McGill.<\/p>\n
The regulatory body called in the Winnipeg Police Service. Officers investigated and seized evidence from the clinic, including several cameras that were disguised to look like sprinkler heads.<\/p>\n
Police found recordings of eight patients, including one whose breasts were exposed in the video, while the others were in various states of undress.<\/p>\n
The patients weren\u2019t aware of of the cameras nor did they consent to being recorded, said McGill.<\/p>\n
Killeen called voyeurism a serious matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s serious because where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and I will say, in the office of a chiropractor or any of other professional where there might be some element of removing an article of clothing or changing into a different type of clothing, I think everyone reasonably should expect that they will be in a private situation,\u201d said Killeen.<\/p>\n
The judge pointed out surreptitious recording is typically done for a sexual purpose.<\/p>\n
He said it appears \u201cextraordinarily unlikely\u201d that the cameras would have been detected if Stitt hadn\u2019t alerted the regulatory investigators himself.<\/p>\n
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\u201c(That) strongly points to what was been agreed, which is that there was no sexual purpose behind this. It was rather an extraordinary mistake in judgment to allow patients to be put in that room,\u201d Killeen said, calling it a \u201cvery misguided attempt to deal with potential theft events.\u201d<\/p>\n
Killeen said Stitt, who had been practising since 1990, violated his professional obligations in a \u201cprofound error of judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The association suspended Stitt from practising for about two years. Wolson said he expects Stitt will continue to face problems with the regulator.<\/p>\n
Stitt apologized to the court.<\/p>\n
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Erik Pindera Erik Pindera is a reporter for the Free Press, mostly focusing on crime and justice. The born-and-bred Winnipegger attended Red River College Polytechnic, wrote for the community newspaper in Kenora, Ont. and reported on television and radio in Winnipeg before joining the Free Press in 2020.\u00a0 Read more about Erik<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Erik produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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