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Houston: Muslim doctor convicted of raping hospital patient, but gets probation only, no prison time

Sep 16, 2018 12:20 pm By Robert Spencer

Why? Because Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh “testified that he went to the woman’s room to do a medical check but that she ‘came on to him’ by grabbing his crotch, Andrews said. Sheikh left, came back to the room, and she came on to him again, Andrews said.” Lisa Andrews is “one of Sheikh’s attorneys.” Andrews also disparaged the victim in lurid terms: “Here we have this Latina woman with her fake boobs that came on to that little nerdy middle-aged guy and he lost his mind.”

Maybe. However, there are other cases that might have offered some pertinent details. In the UK last month, a Muslim migrant who was charged with sexually assaulting a boy in a McDonald’s men’s room claimed, according to his defense attorney, that “the boy had been watching him.” And in July, also in the UK, a Muslim cop on trial for the sexual assault of a teenage girl claimed she repeatedly asked him to have sex with her.

In a similar vein, Muzzammil Hassan, the Buffalo, New York moderate Muslim leader who beheaded his wife, claimed she beat him, and he was just defending himself. Turkan Lowmani, who stabbed his wife 21 times, claimed that his wife “had grabbed the knife first and he had taken it from her before a struggle ensued.” 68-old-year Komar Uddin, accused of raping a teenage girl, claimed she made all the advances upon him. Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis cop who shot dead an unarmed woman, is also claiming that he acted in self-defense.

What if the prosecutors had brought up all those cases in order to illustrate that victim-blaming is common in Shafeeq Sheikh’s culture and should be discounted accordingly? Or would that have been “Islamophobic”?

“A jury convicted a doctor of raping a patient at a hospital — and sentenced him to probation,” by Kristine Phillips, Washington Post, August 19, 2018:

A Houston doctor who was convicted of raping a hospital patient will not serve prison time and, instead, will spend a decade on probation.

Jurors convicted Shafeeq Sheikh, 46, of second-degree sexual assault after a trial that ended this past week. The crime is punishable by up 20 years in prison, but the Texas jury sentenced Sheikh to 10 years of probation on Friday….

The jury’s sentence and the headlines that accompanied it have caused outrage on social media, with some drawing comparisons to a California judge’s decision to sentence Stanford sex offender Brock Turner to six months in jail. But one of Sheikh’s attorneys, who have argued that the sex between Sheikh and the patient was consensual, defended the jury’s decision.

“The 12 members of the jury who sat there and heard evidence for two solid weeks were in the best position to make that call . . . And when you’re not there and you haven’t heard the evidence, people should not jump to conclusions about facts they didn’t hear,” Lisa Andrews told The Washington Post.

The incident occurred Nov. 2, 2013, when the woman was a patient at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston. She told authorities that a male doctor came to her room three times that night, raping her during the third visit. The woman, who was attached to machines and was sedated, was unable to fight and tried to call for help, but the nurses’ call button had been unplugged, court records say. She reported the incident the following morning and agreed to a rape-kit test….

DNA tests led investigators to Sheikh two years later, in October 2015. Sheikh, an internal medicine resident who was on call at the hospital at the time of the incident, was seen on surveillance video and logged his badge to go to the floor where the woman’s room was located at least 12 times, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Prosecutors told jurors last week that Sheikh betrayed the woman’s trust and took advantage of her when she was vulnerable, the Chronicle reported. Court records say that she was admitted to the hospital with complaints of shortness of breath and wheezing, and that she suffered serious injuries in the assault.

Sheikh, a doctor at Baylor College of Medicine at the time of the incident, testified that he went to the woman’s room to do a medical check but that she “came on to him” by grabbing his crotch, Andrews said. Sheikh left, came back to the room, and she came on to him again, Andrews said.

“I think he was probably somewhat shocked and confused the first time,” she said. “He came back and she did those things again, and so he reciprocated.”

Andrews said the defense questioned the woman’s credibility during the trial and presented evidence, including phone records showing that she was texting and calling people while she was at the hospital, to try to prove that she was not sedated. Sheikh’s legal team also questioned the woman’s motivation, suspecting that she had intended to file a lawsuit to potentially receive a settlement, according to Andrews….

“He made a mistake, but he didn’t sexually assault her,” Andrews told jurors during her closing argument, the Chronicle reported. “Here we have this Latina woman with her fake boobs that came on to that little nerdy middle-aged guy and he lost his mind.”…

The outcome surprised some legal experts, who told the Chronicle that the lenient sentence was unusual, especially for a professional who should be held to a higher standard.

Michele Dauber, a Stanford University law professor who led a campaign to recall California Judge Aaron Persky for sentencing Turner to six months in jail, said it’s “likely” that jurors were persuaded by the defense’s “outrageous racist and victim-blaming arguments.”…

The Texas Medical Board has since suspended Sheikh’s license, saying his “continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare.”

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  1. Andy says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    Her name is MARRISA SHEN

    • Andy says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 12:28 pm

      • Joe Felon says

        Sep 17, 2018 at 1:33 am

        That poor excuse for a prime minister is nothing but a pathetic piece of human filth with blood on his hands. Another innocent child is dead as a result of the policies of the left. Apparently these traitor globalists are so concerned with the appeasement of a backwards, 7th century death cult created by a murdering pedophile, then safeguarding the life and liberty of children. These fools, such as Trudeau, will never accept the fact that Islam brings nothing but rape, murder, intimidation/subjugation of non-believers and the demise of the host culture within the West that allows them to enter their borders. Since the only outcome acceptable to the animalistic muslim is the complete takeover of the entire planet, they will never assimilate, but demand all others submit, all while living on welfare and refusing to work. That punk Trudeau is just as guilty as the worthless muslim animal who decided to end the life of an innocent child.

    • Elisha says

      Sep 16, 2018 at 8:28 pm

      Irrelevant, as usual.

      • Ernie says

        Sep 17, 2018 at 3:28 am

        Islam is MISOGYNISTIC , Elisha . Are you smart enough to connect the dots Elisha ?

  2. emma says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 1:00 pm

    marrisa shen was the 13 year old chinese canadian teen from bc, canada, who was found murdered in 2017. Two weeks ago, the police made an arrest- a syrian refugee who had just been in canada 3 months prior to her death. He had been sponsored by a Vancouver church

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Sep 17, 2018 at 10:05 am

      Good job, church. Good commentary, Trudeau. As your commentary when a muslima scammed MSM by claiming her daughter had had her hijab ripped off her head. If you look at the video, in the background her younger brother is mouthing the rant that her sister had been coached to make.

  3. PRCS says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    “Michele Dauber, a Stanford University law professor who led a campaign to recall California Judge Aaron Persky for sentencing Turner to six months in jail, said it’s “likely” that jurors were persuaded by the defense’s “outrageous racist and victim-blaming arguments.

    Hook, line and sinker.

  4. James Lincoln says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    Regarding Dr. Sheikh:

    Following this conviction for rape, the Texas Medical Board should, obviously, move to PERMANENTLY revoke his medical license, which had been previously suspended.

    The license revocation could then be reported to the National Practitioner Databank to prevent ANY chance of obtaining a medical license in another state.

    I cannot fathom this individual EVER receiving a medical license in ANY state following this conviction.

    Sexual relations with a patient, even if consensual, are grounds for license suspension / revocation. In this case, it was proven that it was NOT consensual and this physician literally raped the patient, a FELONY.

    In my opinion, this individual should have been sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence. Following that, if not a US citizen, deport.

    The patient who was raped should also pursue a civil suit against the perpetrator.

  5. WPM says

    Sep 16, 2018 at 7:28 pm

    So if a women has fake “boobs” is “Hispanic ” young good looking it is her fault when she is sedate in a hospital bed at night that she is sexual attacked by a” middle age Moslem doctor”. Sharia compliant hospitals now in Texas I see.. He came back into the room three times after by his story he was grab by this sedate women??If he was so scared by this woman behavior why did he go alone two more times {no floor nurse to witness this behavior}after the first encounter??

  6. TassieR says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 4:00 am

    Looks like the former Lone Star State has deserved the new name of the Crescent State (or whatever emblem is fashionable among their lefties at the present moment)

    • WPM says

      Sep 17, 2018 at 6:28 am

      I guess it true everything is bigger in Texas even whopping Lies told by “middle age” Islamic doctors who say they are seduced by sedated young woman in hospital beds under their care. I hope that woman sues the hospital for having that Sharia complaint doctor on staff , he was following Mohammad example of sexual molesting her as she was half naked sedated in that hospital under their care. How would that judge feel if a relative of his was sexually attack in a hospital as she was sedated and left in their care? Would he feel only probation a fitting sentence for that middle age doctor? I guess under Sharia hospitals rule,s being a young good look non-Moslem woman makes you too sexually inviting to” middle age Islamic nerdy doctors”. He admitted to having sex with a women under his care who was sedated ,going back to her room three times. He was reported to have sex with her on the last visit ,I guess he must have up her dose of drugs on each visit to get her sedated enough so she would not resist ,or better yet remember?

  7. James Lincoln says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 8:36 am

    Interesting idea, a suit against the hospital that employed the Muslim doctor.

    That would put Islam and Sharia law on trial…

    I like it!

  8. chevstock says

    Sep 17, 2018 at 11:59 am

    The court sentence awkwardly mimics many lenient one dispensed by multiple judges in European countries in recent times on behalf of Muslims sexual crimes perpetrators. This behavior by the judges should be studied as a new social or judicial phenomenon in the Western World courts, now including the USA, to avoid this from ever happening again in the future. Something terribly wrong is going on in our courts.

  9. Brenda says

    Sep 18, 2018 at 10:29 am

    Just goes to prove the US definitely need more Muslim doctors so they rape comatose and sedated patients who are unable to defend themselves. (sarcasm added)

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