Ho Keun Shin: Breast surgeon grub who secretly filmed more than ten women during their examinations AVOIDS jail after one of his patients noticed a suspicious tissue box fit with a spy camera
- Breast surgeon who recorded patients avoids jail
- Received a three-year good behaviour bond
A breast surgeon who filmed 11 women during examinations has been spared immediate imprisonment after his lawyer argued that he did it out of ‘concern’.
Ho Keun Shin, practicing under the name Dr Peter Shin at Adelaide‘s Flinders Medical Centre and the Breast and Endocrine Centre in Toorak Gardens, pleaded guilty 12 counts of indecently filming 11 of his adult female patients between October 2019 and August 2021.
The Adelaide Magistrates Court heard the 47-year-old’s creepy behaviour was only discovered when a patient noticed a hidden camera hidden inside a tissue box during her examination.
He has had is medical license suspended and handed a suspended 20-month jail term on condition of a three-year good behaviour bond.
Former breast surgeon, Ho Keun Shin (pictured), has avoided jail-time after pleading guilty to 12 counts of indecently filming 11 of his adult female patients over a two-year period
Magistrate Kym Millard described Shin’s actions were a ‘very, very, disrespectful use’ of his victims’ circumstance.
Magistrate Millard said that each of his victim’s had their trust in medical practitioners was broken by Shin.
He said the doctor’s actions were ‘extremely disturbing’ for his victims, all of which placed trust in him for medical treatments for breast conditions.
A common theme throughout the victim impact statements was the ‘absolute shock and horror that the victims felt when they were advised’, Magistrate Millard said according to The Advertiser.
‘Understandably, many of them said that they would never trust a male doctor again. That is just a shocking indictment on the level of harm that you have caused,’ Magistrate Millard said during sentencing.
Shin, who practiced under the name Dr Peter Shin both publicly and privately across Adelaide, was handed a suspended 20-month sentence depending on a three-year good behaviour bond
Following his 2021 arrest, Shin told police that he did not have a valid excuse for his actions.
‘It’s hard to explain the exact motivation, but it was, yes, I would call it a voyeurism,’ he told police.
Mr Millard had been told that Shin had sought permission to record patients for teaching purposes in the past.
Shin’s defence lawyer, Craig Caldicott, said that his client’s actions were born out of concern for his patients.
‘The explanation that he can give the victims is that he was extremely concerned with what he had been observing in some of the examinations,’ Mr Caldicott said outside court.
He said that Shin was ‘incredibly sorry’ for his actions yet relieved that his care has been finalised.