A junior doctor took intimate photos of patients and secretly filmed his colleagues getting changed at a major regional NSW hospital for sexual pleasure, court documents reveal. or signup to continue reading A worried mother was the first person to raise suspicions about Nicholas Chia Wei Chu after he asked to take a photo of a 16-year-old patient's genitals during an assessment for appendicitis at Orange Health Service. The woman reported the treatment of her child to hospital management in early 2023, leading police to Chu's devices filled with intimate photos of patients and covert recordings of co-workers.
Detectives also found hundreds of videos Chu had secretly filmed of friends naked in their bathrooms and bedrooms at houses in Orange, in central western NSW, and Sydney. Chu, 27, last week pleaded guilty to a string of charges over covert images and videos of 11 patients, three friends and an "unknown" number of colleagues. Among the admissions was one count of producing child abuse material, related to 21 intimate photographs of a 14-year-old patient.
On Thursday, Orange Local Court Magistrate David Day revoked Chu's bail and placed him in custody ahead of his sentencing. According to an agreed statement of facts tendered in court, Chu admitted to police he took covert photos of patients. "The offender explained he used these photographs later for his pleasure," the document said.
Chu took photos of several patients' genitals when they were in severe pain or unconscio.