News: Vancouver Dentist Handed 12 Month Conditional Sentence For Sexual Assualt

Aug, 27 2007 - 3:20 PM

VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - A Vancouver dentist has been handed a 12-month conditional sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting several patients.

The move means Dr. Oleg Gavrilko escapes jail time.

The 46-year old was originally charged with assaulting seven-patients at his Commercial Drive clinic, but was only convicted on four of the counts.

Gavrilko has since been banned from practicing dentistry by the college of dental surgeons.

News - Dentist Guilty on Four Counts of Sexual Assault

Three other counts against Oleg Gavrilko dismissed

Susan Lazaruk, The Province

Published: Wednesday, May 23, 2007

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver dentist was convicted yesterday of four of seven counts of sexual assault against patients at his Commercial Drive clinic.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice David Tysoe found Dr. Oleg Gavrilko guilty of resting his hand on one patient's breast, caressing another's breast and touching her inner thigh, touching and grabbing the breast of a third patient and placing his palm over the breast of another.

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News: More Evidence Against Drive Dentist

Witness: Dentist touched my breast

Woman testifies she then pushed his hands away

Susan Lazaruk, The Province

Published: Thursday, May 17, 2007

A woman testified yesterday that her dentist touched her sexually on two visits.

Dr. Oleg Gavrilko has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of sexual assault, most relating to alleged incidents in 2003, at his former clinic on Commercial Drive at Broadway.

The middle-aged woman said he touched her breast with his hand while adjusting a bib and rubbed his knee against her breast while extracting a tooth during visits in January 2003.

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Woman Testifies Dentist Sexually Touched Her

Woman said she was 'disgusted' to learn of other accusations

Susan Lazaruk, The Province

Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2007

A woman testified yesterday that her dentist once sexually touched her and made sexual remarks.

The woman, now 36, told B.C. Supreme Court that Dr. Oleg Gavrilko made what she thought was a pass at her when he placed his palm over her breast for one or two seconds while she was in his chair for a root canal in June 2003.

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Dentist Denies Sex Assaults on Patients

Seven women accuse barred surgeon of indecent acts

Susan Lazaruk, VANCOUVER

Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2007

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver dentist charged with sexually assaulting seven women pleaded not guilty yesterday to all seven counts.

Dr. Oleg Gavrilko is accused of assaulting the women at his Commercial Drive clinic near Broadway. Most of the assaults are alleged to have occurred in mid-2003, but two date back to 2001 and one to the mid-'90s.

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