Dr. Markandu Ragupathy, 64, of Den Close, Beckenham, who has served a two-year sentence and been released from prison, always denied the new charges.
The Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence on day one of his Croydon Crown Court trial.
Dr. Ragupathy had pleaded not guilty to three counts of gross indecency against the same girl, aged under sixteen years-old, between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2003 at an address in Catford, south-east London.
In May, 2012 he received a two-year sentence after a Woolwich Crown Court trial, which heard he sexually assaulted female patients – one as young as eight - over a 10-year period.
He preyed on vulnerable patients, touching them for his own sexual gratification, while he worked at Catford's Torridon Road practice.
But
incredibly, despite complaints about his behaviour from the mid-90s,
the doctor was allowed to carry on working and his offences continued
until 2005.
The
jury heard how one eight-year-old, who came in with abdomen pain, had
her thigh touched by Ragupathy before he put his hand under her
knickers.
When
the child's mother complained she received a letter back saying the
doctor's treatment had been appropriate.
On other occasions the 61-year-old touched women's breasts, either with his hands or kneading them with a stethoscope.
He
also visited one woman at her home, persuading her to sit on his
knee.
Judge
Andrew Lees told him: "These eight female patients trusted you
as their doctor to carry out proper examinations.
"You
abused that trust by touching them in sexual ways."
He
added: "When complaints were made to the surgery you would
explain that the concern felt by the patients was the result of
misunderstanding."
Ragupathy
was convicted of seven indecent assaults, an attempted indecent
assault and sexual assault.
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