A child psychiatrist, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a child while working for a Belfast hospital in 1972, was allowed to remain on the British medical register for 24 more years during which he was convicted on abuse charges on two further occasions.
Griffith College, Dublin academic Niall Meehan, who has published an account of Morris Fraser's crimes, has called for the case to be investigated by the Goddard Inquiry, which is conducting Britain's most comprehensive-ever examination of child abuse.
Mr Meehan's study, published by Spinwatch, traces Frasers' rise from Senior Psychiatric Registrar for children at the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1971 to a media expert on the impact of the Troubles on children
In 1971 he was convicted of the sexual assault of a member of his Belfast boy scout troop in London.
Police failed to inform the hospital about his London conviction, which also went unreported in the media.
Fraser walked free from court and was ordered not to re-offend for three years.
But a year later, he was arrested in New York and found guilty of attempted sodomy and deported to the UK, where the General Medical Council was considering his fitness to practise in the light of his London conviction
Media reports of his arrest in New York prompted the Royal Victoria Hospital to suspend him.
However, Mr Meehan says its minutes do not refer to Fraser's guilty plea in the US and that Fraser was soon announcing he had been allowed to continue practising without restrictions.
Seventeen years later, he was jailed for a year by a court in London for taking and distributing over 1,000 Indecent images of children.
Three years after that, following media queries, he voluntarily de-registered.
Northern Ireland is not covered by the Goddard Inquiry but Mr Meehan said it cannot avoid investigating the entire Fraser saga because he he carried out the abuse of a Belfast scout in London.
