Surrey provincial court Judge Delaram Jahani said there were 'significant concerns' with the 'reliability and credibility' of a patient who accused longtime massage therapist Gudbjartur Bodhi Haraldsson of sexually assaulting her during a therapy session in 2022.
A Burnaby massage therapist whose "life, finances, and professional reputation" were "irrevocably damaged" when he was accused of sexually assaulting a female patient at his Surrey clinic in 2022 has been acquitted.
"Upon close review of my notes of the evidence that has come out over the past three days, I'm unable to say in good faith that the Crown has proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt," Waterman said. Jahani said she believed Haraldsson's account of what "actually" happened during the therapy session and the steps he took as soon as he left the room that day.
The female patient who filed the report, had received treatment from Haraldsson about once a month for about two years before the incident, according to evidence presented in court. Directly after leaving the room, he said he instructed the patient relations clerk to cancel all the woman's future appointments, and he emailed the client the following day to say he was terminating their therapeutic relationship.
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