It’s been a long time coming, but Strike Force Tarella has now accumulated enough evidence to arrest and charge ex-obstetrician and gynaecologist Graeme Reeves, dubbed the “Butcher of Bega”, on a number of violent offences against women. There were many more complaints, and the police continue to compile evidence.
Reeves engaged in years of malpractice and violations of Medical Board restrictions, and has been implicated in a series of deaths and mutilations of women under his care.
SMH: NSW ‘mutilation’ doctor Graeme Reeves charged
Former NSW doctor Graeme Reeves has been charged with 17 offences against patients on whom he operated.
Reeves, 58, has been charged with offences against 10 women, Detective Superintendent John Kerlatec told reporters today.
He was arrested at his home in the north-western Sydney suburb of Baulkham Hills at 6am today during an investigation into allegations of female genital mutilation, sexual assault, indecent assault, and grievous bodily harm.
This followed a police raid on a storage unit at Gladesville on Wednesday last week, when documents were seized for examination.
Let’s hope justice is done, and the victims can experience some sort of closure.
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Previous Hoyden posts on Graeme Reeves:
- Graeme Reeves: Medical rape culture and collegiality [trigger warning]
- “Revealed: the Butcher of Bega”
- About time
- Followup: medical rape in Australia
Categories: gender & feminism, law & order, medicine, violence
Graeme Reeves received 2 to 3.5 year sentence 
This man was my Dr for all 3 of my pregnancies when i lived in Baulkham Hills and i have nothing bad to say about the treatment i was given by him, what could posibly turn such a nice person into such an animal, maybe i was just one of the lucky ones, my skin crawls thinking about it…..
Sue, I’m glad that you were not harmed by him.
Any speculation here is worth exactly what you pay for it, but from what I have read of serial predatory abusers they have triggers for the sort of person they desire to abuse. Vulnerability (lack of close attentive support people) is part but not all of it. Perhaps you just didn’t have his “favourite” hair colour – who knows?
Well it’s bad news that there were more complaints to be filed, but good news that he’s being charged. And of course good news that since there were more complaints to be filed, women are actually filing them.
caras last blog post..When a Man is The Victim: A Study in Rape Apology
Well this has taken long enough:
Wow, that’s been a _long_ time coming. I hope the prosecution have all their ducks in a row.
The press in April was already reporting that the court was getting tired of delays from Reeves’ defence and it sounds like the magistrate was suspicious he was changing legal teams in order to delay proceedings: Bega doctor’s lawyers warned not to delay.