Prosecutors have stated that a former UK doctor is facing dozens of charges related to alleged sexual offenses against 38 patients under his care, including a child under the age of thirteen.
Regional prosecutor Ben Samples announced on Friday that Nathaniel Spencer, 38, was accused of “a number of serious sexual offences allegedly carried out against patients while he was working as a doctor” in central England. “Assault by penetration and sexual assault against a child” are among them, he said.
The charges against Spencer, of Birmingham, follow a police probe into the alleged sexual offences at two regional state-run hospitals in Stoke-on-Trent and Dudley between 2017 and 2021.
“Our prosecutors have worked at length to support a detailed and complex investigation by Staffordshire Police, carefully reviewing the available evidence,” Samples said.
They established “that there is sufficient evidence to bring the case to trial and that it is in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings,” he added.
Spencer, who was a resident doctor — previously known in Britain as a junior doctor — faces 15 counts of sexual assault, 17 assault by penetration charges and one count of attempted assault by penetration.
Prosecutors and police have not disclosed how many alleged child victims were involved.
Spencer is due to appear at the North Staffordshire Justice Centre on January 20 for his first court hearing
