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Closing arguments heard in Kevin Brown court case

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A Los Angeles prosecutor said similarities in accounts of sexual abuse from 11 patients shows they are telling the truth about being assaulted by Kevin Antario Brown, the physician son of Bermuda’s former leader.During closing arguments yesterday, prosecutor Ann-Marie Wise said the women were given inappropriate breast or pelvic examinations for unrelated complaints such as lightheadedness, flu-like symptoms and an ankle injury.The 40-year-old defendant, who is the son of former Premier Ewart Brown, is charged with sexually assaulting 11 patients over the course of five years at three Los Angeles clinics he owned.The alleged victims include an undercover cop who participated in a Los Angeles Police Department sting in 2008.During the trial, Ms Wise said Kevin Brown had been acquitted in 2004 and 2006 of similar charges.He has pleaded not guilty to 30 felony counts, ranging from sexual exploitation to forcible rape in the current case, which is being heard at the Los Angeles Superior Court. Three additional counts, all involving one victim, were stricken from the case during the trial.The accused man faces life in prison if convicted of all counts, which are being considered by a jury at the Los Angeles Superior Court.“You heard over the course of this trial 11 different women, and they all told you the same thing,” Ms Wise told the jury yesterday.She cited the testimony of one victim who came in to be evaluated for weight loss treatment and said she had her breasts fondled after being told she needed a mammogram.Another victim came in to discuss a lump on her breast only to have Brown nuzzle his face on her chest and suckle on a nipple as part of the supposed examination, the prosecutor said.“This man, he thinks his office, his examination room, is his personal playground and everybody who comes in is his prey,” she told the jury.Kevin Brown’s attorney Edi Faal has claimed the vice officer lied and that none of the other women involved ever alerted his staff about what was allegedly occurring.Dr Ewart Brown and his wife Wanda Henton-Brown have been in court on an “almost daily” basis to support Dr Kevin Brown according to Los Angeles-based observers of the trial who spoke to The Royal Gazette.The accused man is free on $4 million bail, and the case is expected to go to the jury for verdicts today.