Psychologist ‘fondled woman’s groin in depression treatment’

A PSYCHOLOGIST accused of electrocuting a woman’s genitals as part of an anti-smoking treatment fondled her groin and tried to induce an orgasm, a court heard yesterday.

Reginald Kenworthy, 77, touched the woman’s chest and massaged her groin with his thumbs while treating her for depression, Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court was told.

The woman, identified only as Mrs A for legal reasons, wept as she told how Kenworthy had hypnotised her before attempting to “talk” her into an orgasm during consultations at Tameside General Hospital in 1984.