naked photographs of a vulnerable patient and asked him for sex in a shocking abuse of trust. Dean Meakins convinced the victim he should take his clothes off and pose for images to put on a dating site.
The 32-year-old propositioned the same man for sex and carried out a sex act in his presence, Newcastle Crown Court heard. Meakins of High Street East, Sunderland, who worked in Northumberland, has been jailed for six years for that and separate sex offences against a teenage boy, Chronicle Live reports.
Judge Amanda Rippon told Meakins: "You were employed to care for him as a result of his vulnerabilities. "You did the precise opposite of care for him, you abused him.
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