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At first she was tearful, then she was horrified.

The young woman had just discovered a cellphone that was recording her as she took her clothes off in an Ottawa doctor’s examining room.

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Confronted, the doctor insisted that the video was for “training purposes” and deleted it in front of her.

Incredulous, she refused to back down, demanding an immediate response from senior administrators with University of Ottawa Health Services, which runs the Rideau Street clinic.

Within hours, and with the support of friends, she was contacting police.

This is the authorities’ version of events, laid out in documents newly obtained by this newspaper, that police allege brought the weight of the law down on Vincent Nadon, an Ottawa doctor who now faces 94 charges of voyeurism and sexual assault involving 51 victims. The allegations against Nadon have not been tested in a court of law.

The “information to obtain” — a document that outlines police investigators’ rationale in seeking a search warrant from a judge — includes the statements of the woman who made the first complaint against Nadon, a physician with the University of Ottawa Health Services, after she had a medical exam on Jan. 16.