HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) - A Twin Cities psychiatrist has been sentenced to spend five years behind bars for repeatedly sexually assaulting a patient he was treating.
Gavin Meany, 39, was sentenced Wednesday in Dakota County District Court where he had earlier pleaded guilty to four counts of third-degree criminal sexual contact. Meany will be under court supervision for life.
The female victim told investigators last year that she had been abused for five years by Meany who she was seeing for past sexual trauma and an eating disorder.
She said the sexual contact first occurred in Meany’s office in St. Louis Park and later in his Burnsville office and at his Apple Valley home, the Star Tribune reported.
Meany also faces charges in Hennepin County in a separate case.
He also is the subject of a medical malpractice lawsuit in that county by a woman alleging that Meany “preyed on her in a sexual manner” in 2017 and 2018.
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(This story has been corrected to show that the medical malpractice lawsuit in Hennepin County is brought by a woman other than Dakota County victim.)
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