Doctor, 38, charged with string of sex offences against 38 patients including abusing child under 13
A FORMER doctor has been charged with a string of sex offences against 38 patients – including abusing a child aged under 13.
Nathaniel Spencer, 38, allegedly carried out the offences between 2017 and 2021 at two hospitals.
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Police probed claims from Russells Hall hospital in the West MidlandsCredit: Alamy
He was today charged with 15 counts of sexual assault and 17 counts of assault by penetration.
Spencer is also accused of nine counts of sexual assault of a child under 13, three counts of assault of a child under 13 by penetration and one count of attempting to assault by penetration.
The former doctor, of Birmingham, was held following an investigation by Staffordshire Police.
Officers probed the alleged claims at Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent, and Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley.
Spencer will appear at North Staffordshire Justice Centre on January 2026.
Ben Samples, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for the West Midlands CPS Complex Casework Unit and Serious Violence, Organised Crime and Exploitation Unit, said: “We have decided to prosecute Nathaniel Spencer for a number of serious sexual offences allegedly carried out against patients while he was working as a doctor – including assault by penetration and sexual assault against a child.
“Our prosecutors have worked at length to support a detailed and complex investigation by Staffordshire Police, carefully reviewing the available evidence to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring the case to trial and that it is in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings.”
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Spencer will appear at North Staffordshire Justice CentreCredit: BPM
