A homeless man in Christchurch has been jailed for four years after telling a 19-year-old women he was a specialist gynaecologist and performed an "examination" on her.
Tony Haxell, 57, pleaded guilty to a charge of sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.
Haxell appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday where Judge Jane Farish told him, "your veracity is about at the level of zero."
He has also been diagnosed by a psychologist as having "a narcissistic personality disorder," the Christchurch Court News reports.
Haxell's defence council said his psychiatric issues and his personality made it difficult for him to see others' point of view.
However Judge Farish said his behaviour had been "quite predatory" and involved a vulnerable woman, who went on to lose the baby, though not as a result of the "examination".
The victim was eight weeks pregnant at the time and was experiencing some pains.
She met Haxell at an unnamed house where he claimed to be a specialist gynaecologist and offered to help check that her pregnancy was on track.
He then took the woman through to a separate room away from other people where he carried out the "examination."
That was until another person entered the room and stopped what was going on.
Despite his offer of help, doctors told the court an examination would not have been helpful anyway because he wouldn't have been able to feel anything as the baby would have been the size of a lentil at the time.
The judge told Haxell that the victim, who had relatively low intellectual functioning, feels like he has ruined her life and "does not understand that the loss of her child had nothing to do with [him]."
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