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Ottawa-area woman suing former pediatrician and SickKids for alleged sexual assault when she was 12
Oct 15, 2024
Susanne Barrow says she was sexually assaulted by a doctor at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) during a family vacation in Toronto, after she fell ill with food poisoning.
She was 12. It was the summer of 1980.
It would take her 35 years to muster the courage to put into her own words what happened to her.
“He put on gloves, lifted up the cover and told me to pull my shorts and underwear down. Then he inserted his fingers deep into my vagina. Then he walked away,” Barrow wrote in a letter to SickKids in 2015, describing the physician’s unorthodox approach to taking her “internal heat.”
“Despite suffering horribly from food poisoning, something wasn’t right. I knew something dirty had just happened to me and I was too sick to talk,” the letter read.
