He was convicted of one rape and two sexual assaults. Daniel M’Bey, 63, a former cardiologist based in Morbihan, was sentenced Monday on appeal to 15 years of criminal imprisonment by the Assize Court in Nantes. The sentence, accompanied by a definitive ban on practicing a medical or paramedical profession, is identical to that handed down at first instance in Vannes.
The alert was given in 2018 by a woman then aged 21. This patient of Doctor M’Bey explained that she had been raped during a consultation in the private practice that he had opened in parallel with his activities at the Pontivy hospital (Morbihan).
According to the victim, the healthcare professional had injected him with a sedative and hypnotic product, Midazolam. She says she then had a “black hole”, punctuated by a few flashes. “There is no justification for the administration of Midazolam, this is unanimous among experts. A controlled product, delivered by the hospital pharmacy and which has no place in a city office,” underlined the attorney general during his indictment, before comparing the accused to a “hunter” facing to “prey”.
“It was the minimum”
Two other young women, aged 24 and 18 at the time of the events, in 2017 and 2018 respectively, accused him of sexual assault, one at the hospital, the other at his medical office. On appeal as in first instance, the former doctor denied all the facts. He claimed to have had a consensual sexual relationship with the young woman who accused him of rape, recognizing there an “ethical misconduct”. This new conviction is a “moral satisfaction for the victims”, welcomed Me Raoul Ntsakala, lawyer for one of the civil parties. “It was the minimum,” he added.