By Daniel Tepfer

Connecticut Post

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — The former emergency manager at Bridgeport Hospital pleaded not guilty Tuesday to forcibly administering enemas to at least four men and secretly photographing a dozen others in the hospital’s nursing school.

“Not guilty,” Barry Barkinsky declared leaning in to the microphone at the defense table in the Main Street arraignment court to four counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and 10 counts of voyeurism.

“Trial by jury.”

“This is a very delicate situation,” later remarked David Roache, whose law firm is representing one of the complainants. “Obviously this is a tragedy and right now it’s under investigation by our firm.”

Superior Court Judge Robert Devlin continued the case to July 28.

Both Barkinsky and his lawyer, Ralph Romano, declined comment as they left the courthouse.

Barkinsky, of Franklin Street, Stamford, had also been teaching at the Bridgeport Hospital nursing school until hospital officials said they fired him after learning about the police investigation.

He is free on $100,000 bond.

Police said when they confronted Barkinsky he admitted the allegations and turned over 2,181 photographs he had secretly taken of at least a dozen men while he had them naked on a table performing a medical procedure on them.

On Dec. 8, 2015, police said they were contacted by a 22-year-old local man who complained he had been sexually assaulted and secretly photographed by Barkinsky.

Police said the victim told them he had enrolled in the EMT course at the nursing school in 2013 and Barkinsky was one of his instructors. At some point Barkinsky noticed the man was having back trouble and offered to give him weekly chiropractic treatments in an office in the nursing school, police said. During each treatment Barkinsky would have the man lie naked on a table and Barkinsky would begin by thoroughly examining the man’s genitals with his hands, police said.

“He (the victim) though Barkinsky had an unorthodox approach to medicine and didn’t question anything,” police said.

During one of the treatments the victim told police he heard a camera shutter sound and was concerned Barkinsky was photographing his naked backside.

On Nov.24, 2015, police said during an enema session the victim looked behind him to say something and did catch Barkinsky photographing him with his cell phone. Later, police said the victim secretly photographed Barkinsky photographing him as he lay naked on the table. They said the victim turned the photo over to them.

Police said when Lt. Chris LaMaine confronted Barkinsky and asked him if he would make a statement, Barkinsky blurted, “I might as well because you’re going to see the pictures anyways.” They said he then turned over the photographs of a dozen naked men all undergoing enema procedures and admitted the procedures had not been consensual.

Police said they later contacted 10 of the men in the photographs, three others who complained they had been sexually assaulted by Barkinsky in a hospital office. All said they were unaware Barkinsky had been photographing them, police said.

In Barkinsky’s Stamford apartment police said they found various paddles used for sexual fetishes along with a large cache of medical supplies including enema equipment that was mounted on a pole in Barkinsky’s bedroom. There was also a lot of fetish-type literature including one entitled, “The doctor will spank you now.”

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