Category Archive for : ‘DOCTORS’

June 22, 2020
Independent

The date is 4 August 2016. The Indianapolis Star, a daily newspaper, has published an article titled “A blind eye to sex abuse: How USA Gymnastics protected coaches over kids”. The article reveals in thorough detail how top executives at USA Gymnastics had – for years – brushed allegations of sexual abuse under the carpet by following an unlawful policy of not alerting the authorities unless an allegation was heard directly from a victim or their parent. The publication of the article would set off a chain of events that would result in

March 13, 2020
Euronews

A retired surgeon accused of sexually abusing as many as 349 young children over decades – primarily his patients, in their hospital rooms — is facing justice at last, in the worst such case to come to light in France.

The trial opening Friday in the western city of Saintes is only the beginning, however.

It concerns four people allegedly targeted by Joel Le Scouarnec, 69, including two of his nieces. Other legal complaints against the doctor have piled up since the original investigation wrapped up, and prosecutors are preparing

May 25, 2020
Alan Blinder
NY TIMES

For more than 40 years, Chuck Christian did not call himself a victim because he did not think he was one.
He was a muralist who had played tight end at Michigan. He grew up poor in Detroit but came to be a world traveler. He contracted prostate cancer and outlived his doctors’ predictions.
Then, in February, an old teammate called.
Remember Dr. Robert E. Anderson? The team doctor at Michigan who performed painful, unexplained rectal exams? Someone reported him, the former teammate said, and it turns out that

Sep 10, 2019
Cheri Mossburg and Holly Yan
CNN

(CNN) – George Tyndall, a former university gynecologist who’s facing 29 counts of sex crimes, has surrendered his medical license, the Medical Board of California said.
Tyndall was a gynecologist at the University of Southern California for almost 30 years, until he was fired in 2017. He’s accused of inappropriately touching 16 patients during his work at USC’s campus health clinic.
The medical board said Tyndall’s license was surrendered effective last Thursday. The license had already been suspended due to the allegations against him.
Tyndall faces 18

March 8, 2020
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

A plastic surgeon primarily based in Ohio was arrested Friday by the FBI for allegedly drugging multiple women to the point of unconsciousness and raping them on camera.
Dr. Manish Gupta, 49, is charged with illegally dispensing controlled substances, aggravated sexual abuse and sex trafficking, Toledo’s WTVG reported. He was booked into Lucas County Corrections Center in Toledo Friday afternoon after a federal search warrant on his phone, residence, personal vehicle and two offices in Lucas County uncovered sex toys, camera equipment, SD cards and vials of

February 27, 2020
Terry McSweeney
NBC Bay Area

An East Bay oral surgeon has been charged with a slew of sex crimes involving children, including one child as young as nine.
Dr. Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, 36, practiced oral surgery in a number of Bay Area locations over the years, and investigators are looking into whether there may be more victims.
The story, first reported but the Bay Area News Group, began at Lavorini-Doyle’s office building in Walnut Creek last December when he tried to force a woman into his car. He failed, and then offered her