A social worker is to face a disciplinary hearing after he was accused of hitting a woman and forcing his way into her children’s bedroom, before lying down on the bed with a two-year-old child.
Brian Gorman will appear before the Scottish Social Services Council to face a string of charges, including claims that he developed “inappropriate” relationships with two women.
The 58-year-old was working for Aberdeen City Council’s integrated drugs service at the time the 27 alleged offences, which date from June 2011 to September 2013.
It is alleged that he became involved with the first woman while she was receiving support from the team and continued to see her after her final meeting with it in April 2012.
Mr Gorman is also accused of encouraging her to stop attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings around January 2012 while she was receiving support from him.
He faces further charges that after the relationship ended, he sent the woman a picture of himself after he had self-harmed by “cutting his own arms” and later told her he was going to kill himself by drinking methadone.
Mr Gorman is accused of shouting abuse at the woman at her home in July last year and as he followed her to a bus stop.
It is also alleged that in September last year, while on bail with a special condition not to contact the woman, Mr Gorman sent her a birthday card and went to her home where he declared his love for her by shouting outside her window.
The Scottish Social Services Council say Mr Gorman’s alleged actions amount to him “forming an inappropriate relationship” with her.
Mr Gorman is also accused of showing another woman graphic photographs of a girlfriend or ex-girlfriend, believed to be the first woman, displaying self-harm wounds and taking heroin.
He is further accused of forcing his way into the second woman’s home on August 17, 2013, going to her children’s bedroom and then lying on the bed with her two-year-old child.
Mr Gorman faces a further charge of hitting the woman when she tried to prevent him from getting into the room.
The SSSC also alleges that Mr Gorman was “dishonest” and failed to be “reliable and dependable” as he did not notify it that he had been charged by police in August 2013, or that criminal proceedings were taken against him, and he was convicted in relation to his conduct towards one or both of women.
The Scottish Social Services Council will consider the case against him at a hearing in Dundee in the new year.