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“I’m only looking at your buttons”

An 81-year-old man who admitted posing as a doctor and giving free breast exams to women at a Lauderdale Lakes apartment complex in 2006 was sentenced on Friday to serve the next 13 months in prison.

Phillip Winikoff, of Coconut Creek, will also serve three years of community control followed by 15 years of sex offender probation once he gets out of Florida state prison. By the time he’s done answering for his crimes, he will be 100 years old…

Zann said Winikoff went to the 3200 block of Northwest 40th Street carrying a black bag and approached a woman taking out her garbage. The white-haired man said he was a doctor performing free breast exams in the area.

According to Zann, Winikoff went to the woman’s apartment, with the woman’s significant other in the next room, and began massaging the woman’s breasts. Then he had her remove her pants and penetrated her with his fingers, Zann said.

That’s when the woman stopped the exam and called for her boyfriend. Winikoff fled the apartment, and the victim called 911. But Winikoff wasn’t done, Zann said. He quickly found another victim and repeated the ruse. Again he talked his way into the woman’s apartment, got her to undress and fondled the woman’s breasts and genitals.

He was charged with sexual battery and practicing medicine without a license. Had he been convicted at trial, he could have been sentenced to 55 years behind bars.

Appearing humbled before the judge, Winikoff spoke softly, barely above a whisper. “I know I did wrong,” he said. Most of what he told the judge was inaudible from the audience, but he did appear to be tearful and remorseful.

The victims did not appear in court.

Sadly demented. But, criminal behavior requires penalties and supervision on behalf of society.

Cripes! The headline is just about everything you need to know, right?

An Idaho judge on Wednesday set bond at $100,000 for a Boise woman police say posed as a physician and duped at least two other women into having their breasts examined by her at Boise-area nightclubs.

Kristina Ross, 37, remains in Ada County Jail in Boise on two felony counts of practicing medicine without a license…

As part of her ruse, Ross gave the women the telephone number of a real licensed plastic surgeon in Boise, the state capital, authorities said.

Staff at that medical office became alarmed at the number of calls they received from women in recent weeks attempting to confirm appointments or surgeries with a Berlyn Aussieahshowna, according to charging documents.

And, then, there’s this twist to the plot:

The suspect’s gender is unclear. Idaho court records show that Ross was arrested for petty theft in the spring and that the arrest warrant was issued to a Kristoffer Jon Ross.

The Idaho Statesman website reported that Ross has a previous criminal record as a man but identifies herself as a woman and was booked into Ada County Jail as a female…

Court appearance is set for December 1st and I can hardly wait.