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November 13, 2013
Dr. Tory Westbrook’s unusual examinations of five women did not serve a medical purpose but were sexual assaults done for Westbrook’s own sexual gratification, a prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday.
Middlesex State’s Attorney Peter McShane told the jury of three women and three men that they should reject any suggestion that the exams were proper.
“He’s a predator preying on vulnerable women,” McShane said.
Westbrook’s defense attorney, Norm Pattis, said that his client’s only error was in failing to properly communicate with his patients during examinations of their intimate parts.
“The problem here is a failure to communicate,” Pattis said in his closing argument. “Nothing more, nothing less.”
Westbrook, 45, of Glastonbury, faces four counts of fourth-degree sexual assault for alleged inappropriate breast exams and four counts of second-degree sexual assault for alleged inappropriate vaginal examinations at Clinton’s Community Health Center.
The jury is scheduled to begin deliberations Wednesday.
Pattis on Tuesday sought to highlight the disagreement among some physicians who testified about what is acceptable during an exam, and he urged the jury to consider the words of those who said it was appropriate to, as Westbrook did, touch both of a woman’s breasts at the same time and to squeeze or manipulate the nipples.
He also suggested to the jury that the remarkably similar stories that the women told were a result of collusion among them and the lawyers representing four of them in civil lawsuits.
“There was a perfect storm brewing in the late spring and early summer of 2012,” Pattis said, referring to when Westbrook was initially arrested and more allegations came to light.
The allegations, Pattis said, are “distressingly alike.”
Nonsense, replied McShane, who said that Clinton police Det. Sgt. Joseph Flynn went to great lengths to ensure that the women did not know about each other. He also noted that warrants for Westbrook’s arrest were not unsealed until after all five of the women had given statements to police.
