An Auckland doctor who faces historic sex allegations against young girls will have to stop practising medicine in order to have his name kept from the public.
The 58 year old was also ordered by Judge Lawrence Hinton to tell his employers that he faced the five chargesas a condition of his name suppression.
Telling his employers and stopping practising medicine were also among the conditions of bail, which was granted with the consent of both parties when the doctor appeared in Auckland District Court today.
The doctor was arrested yesterday and charged with rape, attempted rape, inducing an indecent act and two charges of indecent assault.
The charges relate to historical events between 1979 and 1987 involving three women who, when children, lived or holidayed in a small community on the Coromandel Peninsula, where the accused lived when not in Auckland.
Judge Hinton said it was a difficult balancing act deciding whether the man's name should be suppressed.
But he said that the private interests of the defendant presently outweighed the public interest in knowing his identity, provided that certain interests of the public were met.
Judge Hinton said the prohibition on him practising medicine, which the doctor agreed to, would meet most of those concerns.
He ordered that no identifying factors be published other than those already in the public domain.
He particularly ordered that nothing more specific than the term "Otahuhu medical service/centre" be used to identify his employer, which had legal representation in court and successfully sought suppression of its name.
The doctor, who showed little emotion as he stood in court today, will reappear in Auckland District Court in April. His interim name suppression continues until that date.
