A previous Penticton massage therapy specialist is outlawed from the occupation for 25 years as well as will certainly need to pay over $105,000 for sex-related transgression on duty.
Leonard Krekic, that operated in Penticton as well as various other cities in B.C., was located to have actually dedicated expert transgression as well as amateur conduct while dealing with several women individuals in between 2012 as well as 2019 by a corrective panel on Aug. 5.
On Dec. 21, the University of Massage Therapy Therapists of B.C. made their choice on what Krekic’s penalty would certainly be.
That penalty will certainly be a restriction from signing up with the University to function as a massage therapy specialist till January 1, 2048, as well as a penalty as well as expenses completing $105,952.51.
6 various previous customers of Krekic had actually submitted claims versus him with the University, starting with a claims submitted in 2019. Their names were edited in the released record laying out the factors behind the panel’s choice.
“This is among one of the most significant situations to ever before come prior to the Technique Board because of the nature as well as gravity of several circumstances of transgression entailing various individuals crossing a duration of years,” checks out component of the Aug 5 choice.
“Sex-related transgression is a specifically significant kind of transgression due to the fact that it entails a violation of count on as well as misuse of individuals. The period as well as regularity of Mr. Krekic’s conduct was significant, as well as its influence on the plaintiffs was extensive.”
Krekic lived or operated in White Rock, Surrey as well as Penticton over the moment where he dealt with the individuals, though just the last individual is determined as having actually been dealt with particularly in Penticton.
Past the claims from the 6 individuals, the university additionally located that in 2019, after providing an order early right into its examination Krekic had actually fallen short to maintain them approximately day when he relocated where he was providing solutions, stopped working to offer records on the individuals he saw, stopped working to have a surveillant existing throughout his visits with women individuals, as well as remained to exercise treatment without responsibility insurance coverage for an amount of time.
A suspension of Krekic’s enrollment as a massage therapy specialist was established in Feb. 2020, as well as a hearing over the claims occurred in 2021. In October 2020, Krekic surrendered from his CMTBC enrollment.
Along with several accounts of unsuitable touching of his individuals, including their genital areas, Krekic had several individuals affirm that he made unsuitable remarks consisting of deals to wish his individuals.
Krekic additionally became part of a close individual partnership with the 6th individual, that he utilized to aid rent his residential properties because of his ‘tainted’ online reputation.
The 6th individual mentioned that after vacating a home she was leasing from Krekic, she saw points plainly as well as quickly mosted likely to make a problem.
The choice mentions that she was encouraged due to the fact that it was “linked with Christianity as well as with the adjustment…. I was really at risk as well as I think that he saw that as well as he made the most of it.”
The complete 186-page record laying out the factors behind the panel’s Aug. 5decision is published on the University’s site, as is the much shorter Dec. 21 choice.
2 of the individuals indicated that they had actually mosted likely to the RCMP with issues versus Krekic. None of the claims have actually been brought on trial as well as Krekic does not show up to have a rap sheet.
At the time of the August choice, Penticton RCMP were grabbed remark as well as reacted to state that they do not talk about the presence of examinations.
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