Doctor convicted of molesting girl

An Anaheim gynecologist was convicted Friday of sexually molesting a teenage girl under the guise of a medical exam, authorities said.

Anthony Lee, 64, of Villa Park pleaded guilty to felony charges of sexual battery by fraud, first-degree residential burglary for entering the victim’s home with the intent to commit a sexual offense and lewd acts on child.

He was sentenced to three years in state prison, must register as a sex offender and was stripped of his medical license, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

One of Lee’s attorney’s, Edward George, declined to comment on the case.

A friend of the victim’s family, Lee visited the home of the then-16-year-old girl in March 2006, professing to be there for a medical consultation and to offer guidance on birth control.

“He was well-known to her and their entire family,” said Susan Kang Schroeder, the district attorney’s public affairs counsel. “He was invited into the home.”

With the girl’s mother downstairs, Lee went to the victim’s upstairs bedroom, prosecutors said. Lee claimed that he needed to perform an examination before providing her with contraceptives and that he needed to digitally penetrate her to check for infections.

Wearing no gloves or medical equipment, Lee then kissed the girl, touched her breasts, digitally penetrated her and moved her body into sexual positions, explaining that he was teaching her sexual techniques men would like.

Lee was married at the time of the incident, said Farrah Emami, a district attorney’s spokeswoman.

The girl, believed to be an Irvine resident, reported the assault and revealed that Lee had orally copulated her when she was 10 or 11 years old.

Lee also had kissed the girl between 2004 and 2006 when they were alone together as he was teaching her to drive, prosecutors said.

Two other women subsequently reported that Lee had sexually assaulted them in his Anaheim office on La Palma Avenue during a medical exam. He cannot be prosecuted for those allegations because the statute of limitations has expired.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Heather Brown of the county prosecutor’s sexual assault unit handled the case. She could not be reached for comment.

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