Brooklyn Urologist Convicted for Fondling Female Patient

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Park Slope urologist has been convicted for fondling a 59-year-old female patient after conducting an exam.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office says Dr. Saeid Shamsian faces up to a year in jail after his conviction on charges of forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.

Prosecutors say Shamsian scheduled the patient late in the day, after his practice in the upscale Brooklyn neighborhood was closed. After giving the woman a vaginal exam, he told her to lie on her stomach. Then he massaged her back, fondled her genitals and squeezed her breasts.

Shamsian is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 13.

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