Dodgy doc guilty of more sex offences
GEELONG Grammar School’s former live-in doctor has again avoided a jail term for sexual offending.
David Brian Mackey, 85, of Point Lonsdale, was sentenced to a community corrections order this week after pleading guilty in the County Court to three charges of indecent assault.
The offences took place between 1972 and 1975, while Mackey worked at the school’s campus in Corio, but details of the offending are yet to be made public.
Mackey was the school’s live-in doctor from 1964-93.
The decision to release Mackey on a CCO comes six years after a judge gave him a suspended jail sentence for raping a female patient and indecently assaulting another at a Geelong medical clinic in 2010.
Mackey was working at the clinic when he digitally penetrated the vagina of a woman who attended to have a thumb injury examined.
He also cupped a woman’s breasts during a separate incident about a month later.
Victims campaigner Michael Advocate — who uses a pseudonym and followed the recent Mackey case — said he was “traumatised and offended” by the “repulsive decision” not to jail the former doctor.
“What terrible message does this send to his victims?”
Mr Advocate said. “He’s guilty, but doesn’t even spend one solitary day in prison.
“When is anyone actually going to start to care for the damaged victims? Yet again the victims lose.”
As part of the two-year corrections order imposed by Judge Bill Stuart, Mackey must pay a $2000 bond.
He has also been placed on the sex offenders list for life.
A series of historic complaints against Mackey emerged following state and national royal commissions into sexual assaults at nongovernment organisations.
At one point, Victoria
Police’s SANO taskforce had more than 15 former students making allegations about the man’s conduct as a GP.
Mackey was due to face trial in the County Court last month over separate allegations of indecent assault, however those charges were permanently stayed, meaning he no longer faces prosecution.
Mackey has not worked as a doctor for several years.
He spent almost half his life at Geelong Grammar, studying there from 1945 and becoming head boy in 1952.
As resident doctor, he lived on the Corio campus with his wife and children.