Convicted child sex offender Frankie Allan Bailey permanently banned from practice after posing as doctor, treating 9yo boy
Health authorities have taken permanent action against a man convicted of child sexual assault who illegally treated a nine-year-old boy while posing as a doctor.
The NSW Health Services Complaints Commission has ordered the permanent ban of Frankie Allan Bailey, MD, of the Southwest Mental Health Centre, following an investigation into his professional conduct with a school-age boy.
The 60-year-old man was convicted in 2009 of five counts of sexual intercourse with a child after molesting a 16-year-old boy at St Andrew’s Christian College in Grafton, where he was principal.
Additionally, in 2010, he was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault on a 14-year-old boy, who was also a student at the school where he was the principal.
Bailey was sentenced to prison for his crimes and was placed on the Child Protection Register; This demanded he report to the police and banned him from having any contact with a person under 18.
He breached his reporting obligations three times and was sentenced to prison in 2021 but was released the following year.
After his release, Bailey was working as an unregistered health practitioner providing mental health support.
The convicted child sex offender offered his services as a “senior psychotherapist” and “consultant,” claiming to specialize in trauma, addictions, parenting support, self-harm, postpartum depression, cognitive analytic therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy.
Although Bailey had a doctorate in science education from 2003, he had no formal medical or health qualifications; The commission found that he misled patients by portraying himself as a doctor and healthcare professional.
In 2024, the Commission received notification from NSW Police that Bailey had been arrested after providing medical services to a nine-year-old child.
Investigators found that the boy’s mother contacted Bailey to request mental health support for her son.
The unregistered practitioner began diagnosing the child over the phone and asked the child to come to an appointment with him alone, although the mother did not comply.
Bailey then met with the boy and his mother and told him that although he had no formal training, he could perform a special analysis called an electroencephalogram (EEG) at their next appointment.
He pleaded guilty in May 2025 to five counts of failing to comply with reporting obligations.
The commission also received a separate complaint in 2023 regarding Bailey’s alleged work with children; but the complaint was unfounded.
At the time, Bailey recommended he close his clinic, Southwest Counselling, due to “harassment” from the public; but later resumed operating under a different business name: Southwest Mental Health Center.
In a police interview in 2024, Bailey told officers he knew he could not become a member of the Australian Counseling Association because those associations required Terms of Work.
He checked on the children but added that he knew he didn’t need certain qualifications to be a counselor.
He told police he no longer used his first name in his business because he did not want potential clients to learn about his convictions for child sex crimes.
“I don’t want my customers to Google me,” he said.
The commission found that Bailey breached the code of conduct by failing to provide ethical healthcare services in a safe and ethical manner, misrepresenting himself and providing care outside his experience and training.
They ordered that Bailey be permanently banned from providing any paid or voluntary healthcare services to any member of the public, effective April 16, 2026.
