A Sydney doctor who claimed “tantric healing” was the reason he put his penis in the hand of a sleeping 16-year-old girl has been jailed.

Sleep study technician Dr Ali Khorami, 50, repeatedly preyed upon female patients who’d agreed to stay overnight in Glebe’s Woolcock Clinic to solve issues with their sleep in 2018.

“Instead of getting the data for their problems to be diagnosed, they were indecently assaulted or drugged by the person collecting the data,” Judge Leonie Flannery said on Friday.

Jailing him for six years, the NSW District Court judge said the offending in July and August 2018 was a “gross breach of trust”.