The accused, a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, was charged with three counts of sexual assault against three former patients.
The Crown alleged the accused touched the complainants in a sexual manner under the guise of 'energy work' and medical treatment.
The court dismissed the Crown's similar fact application, finding the evidence across counts was either not probative of the sexual nature of the touching or too dissimilar.
The court acquitted the accused on all counts, finding the testimony of one complainant unreliable and harbouring a reasonable doubt as to whether the touching of the other two complainants was of a sexual nature rather than for a clinical purpose.
