A doctor who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing some of his patients over several years was sentenced to prison in a Manitoba court on Thursday.

Arcel Bissonnette was sentenced to 12 years in prison by Judge Sadie Bond in Manitoba's Kings Bench Provincial Court. He was found guilty of five counts of sexual harassment after a trial last year.

The assaults occurred between 2001 and 2017, when Bissonnette worked as a family physician at St. Ann Hospital and Sen Medical Center.

"It's not an exaggeration to say you may have scarred your victims for life," Bond said.

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