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An Edmonton-area doctor has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for sexually assaulting a co-worker.

Ismail Taher, who is 38, was also given two years probation.

The woman said he touched her breasts and buttocks in 2013.

Taher was given a suspended sentence for common assault on another female co-worker, also in 2013.

Last month, the Alberta Court of Appeal denied Taher’s appeal of a sexual assault conviction on an 18-year-old patient.

READ MORE: Alberta doctor’s appeal of sex assault conviction denied

He was found guilty in 2015 of groping the woman who went to a medicentre in Sherwood Park about a possibly infected nose piercing in August 2013.

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The woman said Taher massaged her breasts and touched her buttocks while looking at her other piercings.

Taher was sentenced to 12 months probation for that crime.

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