Two sex lawsuits against former court psychiatrist dismissed over ‘long delay’

Lawsuits by two former patients of court psychiatrist Aubrey Levin have been thrown out of court.

Lawyers for the once-embattled doctor were able to convince Court of Queen’s Bench Master J.L. Mason that both actions commenced in 2011 and 2012, respectively, should be dismissed.

“The claims of the plaintiff as against Dr. Levin are hereby dismissed for long delay,” Mason wrote in two separate orders dated May24.

Both men, whom Postmedia is not naming because of the sexual nature of the allegations, launched lawsuits after Levin, now 79, was charged in 2010 with abusing multiple patients. Initially, one former patient came forward and after police charged Levin with sexual assault, dozens more surfaced resulting in charges involving 21 alleged victims in total.

In June 2011, he was ordered to stand trial on 10 of the 21 allegations. He eventually stood trial in late 2012 and early 2013 on 10 charges of sexual assault, one of which was dropped before the case went to the jury.

After four days of deliberations, jurors on Jan. 28, 2013, found Levin guilty of sexually assaulting three former patients, acquitted him of molesting two others and declared they were deadlocked on the other four.

A mistrial was declared on those allegations and a new trial was never held.

The two plaintiffs whose lawsuits were dismissed were not among the 10 complainants whose case went to trial.

In the lawsuits both men claimed they were victimized by the doctor, one from 1998 to 2004 and the other between 2003 and 2006, after being ordered by judges to see him and faced jail if they didn’t comply. Levin was sentenced to five years in a federal prison for the three charges for which he was convicted.

There are still multiple claims against the South Africa native before the courts.