$10,000 extortion alleged after oral sex with doctor

Our client, a disability support pensioner in her 40’s, was charged with extorting her doctor for $10,000. The prosecution alleged our client threatened to take the doctor to court if he didn’t pay the money after a consensual act of fellatio performed in the doctor’s consulting room. The doctor denied the sexual act was consensual. The prosecution tendered an audio recording made the same day. Our client told the jury she felt she had been used by the doctor for his sexual gratification and he had refused to acknowledge, much less discuss, the sexual encounter. Our client testified that the only way the doctor would even listen to her was if she mentioned the prospect of him having to pay money. There was no criminal intent. Following a 3-day trial in the Perth District Court the jury found our client not guilty.