A Melbourne man who passed himself off as a gynaecologist for 10 years has been sentenced to 9.5 years jail for crimes against 30 patients.
Raffaele Di Paolo, 61, pleaded guilty or was found guilty of more than 50 offences of procuring sexual penetration by fraud, assault, indecent assault and obtaining or trying to obtain property by deception.
Victorian County Court Judge Bill Stuart had blasted Di Paolo's "profound" capacity for deception.
Di Paolo was sentenced to 9.5 years jail with a minimum of 6.5 years.
In sentencing him on Friday Judge Stuart labelled Di Paolo a "charlatan who has no insight and no remorse".
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The fake doctor's web of lies was not restricted to Melbourne but spanned back decades to his work in Italy, the judge noted.
Di Paolo obtained forged medical qualifications to thwart Italian authorities in the 1990s but was caught and convicted.
After returning to Australia, he trotted out the same documents to suspicious health authorities.
Preyed on women desperate for children
Between 2005 and 2015, Di Paolo amassed 30 victims, women and their partners desperate for children.
He presented himself as a medical practitioner and fertility specialist who had worked overseas and at the Melbourne-based Monash IVF before turning to more natural therapies.
"Your capacity for deception is profound," Judge Stuart said.
"There is no doubt ... that you do have wide experience and skills in this area. It is how you presented yourself which is critical."
His treatments included taking blood which was never labelled, injecting homeopathic substances from Germany and conducting ultrasounds.
