A previous Penticton massage therapy specialist is prohibited from the career 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 devoted specialist transgression as well as amateur conduct while dealing with several women clients 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. provided 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 amounting to $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 detailing the factors behind the panel’s choice.
“This is among one of the most severe instances to ever before come prior to the Technique Board as a result of the nature as well as gravity of several circumstances of transgression including several clients crossing a duration of years,” checks out component of the Aug 5 choice.
“Sex-related transgression is a specifically severe type of transgression due to the fact that it entails a violation of depend on as well as misuse of clients. The period as well as regularity of Mr. Krekic’s conduct was severe, as well as its effect 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 clients, though just the last client is determined as having actually been dealt with particularly in Penticton.
Past the claims from the 6 clients, the university likewise located that in 2019, after releasing 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 supply records on the clients he saw, stopped working to have a surveillant existing throughout his visits with women clients, as well as remained to exercise treatment without obligation insurance coverage for a time period.
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 clients, including their genital areas, Krekic had several clients declare that he made unsuitable remarks consisting of deals to wish his clients.
Krekic likewise became part of a close individual connection with the 6th client, that he utilized to aid rent his residential properties as a result of his ‘tainted’ track record.
The 6th client specified that after vacating an apartment or condo she was leasing from Krekic, she saw points plainly as well as promptly mosted likely to make an issue.
The choice specifies that she was encouraged due to the fact that it was “linked with Christianity as well as with the adjustment…. I was really prone as well as I think that he saw that as well as he capitalized on it.”
The complete 186-page record detailing 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 clients indicated that they had actually mosted likely to the RCMP with problems 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 replied to state that they do not discuss the presence of examinations.
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