Acupuncturist couple’s shocking tactics to get ‘brainwashed’ patient to have sex with them
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An acupuncturist couple has been jailed after ‘brainwashing’ a younger patient into having sex with them.
The Queensland couple, Arthur Cunningham, 69, and his wife Sheena Cunningham, 55, tricked the victim, in her 20s, into believing sex with them was the only way to heal her.
A Brisbane jury found the couple guilty of 10 charges, including multiple counts of rape and sexual assault.
The court heard, at the couple’s sentencing on Friday, how the victim told police she had been ‘made to believe, in a slow and calculated way, that this was the only way she would ever be healthy’.
Judge Suzanne Sheridan told the Brisbane District Court the victim had sought treatment from the couple, who ran an acupuncture business at their Thornlands home.
Over a period of months, the couple ‘brainwashed’ and ‘tricked’ the victim into thinking she would receive ‘good hormones’ if she engaged in various sexual acts with them.
The court heard the victim felt she had been ‘violated in every way’.
‘Your offending involved a gross breach of trust, worsened by your repeated abuse,’ Judge Sheridan said.
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