Oamaru doctor on indecent assault charges

An Oamaru doctor will go on trial next year over several charges of indecent assault.

Stephen James Dawson (59) will face trial on seven charges - five of indecent assault, one of attempting to have exploitative sexual connection with a person with significant impairment, and another charge of exploitatively doing an indecent act with a person with significant impairment. 

Name suppression was lifted in the Timaru District Court on Monday.

All other details of Monday’s hearing are statutorily suppressed.