'Healer' jailed for sex assaults on 6; COURT.A USED-CAR salesman who set himself up as a healer healer Mainstream medicine A romantic synonym for physician. See Traditional healing. was jailed for four years yesterday for groping grope v. groped, grop·ing, gropes v.intr. 1. To reach about uncertainly; feel one's way: groped for the telephone. 2. six women. The wealthy clients came to James Hands, 69, with neck and back problems. A court heard he had no medical qualifications and he told one patient treatment to her groin was necessary to prevent her ankles swelling. He put his hands inside the underwear of several of his victims aged 35 to 60 at his home in Ottery St Mary, Devon, from 1997 to 2007. Hands claimed it was "holistic healing" but a jury at Exeter crown court convicted him on eight charges of indecent or sexual assault. Prosecutor Mary McCarthy Noun 1. Mary McCarthy - United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989) Mary Therese McCarthy, McCarthy said one victim reported Hands to the National Federation of Spiritual Healers but they chose not to inform the police. |
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