Posted: 03/24/2014 10:46 am EDT Updated: 03/24/2014 1:59 pm EDT
An Illinois doctor is accused of sexually assaulting a bedridden patient as more allegations emerge that as many as 11 other patients -- many of them elderly and disabled -- endured years of similar abuse while under his care.
Dr. Charles Dehaan of the Rockford, Ill. suburb of Belvidere is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse against a physically handicapped person -- both felonies -- and was ordered held on $250,000 bond in court Sunday, according to NBC Chicago. Prosecutors said Dehaan sexaully assaulted a bedridden, 61-year-old suburban Chicago woman and abused her over a span of three years when he made doctor's visits to her home, the Sun-Times reports...
During visits spanning from 2009 until 2012, the Tribune reports the 59-year-old doctor is accused of fondling the disabled patient and forcing her to touch his genitalsduring closed-door exams with her. According to the Sun-Times, prosecutors said the woman cried and pleaded with Dehaan to stop during the alleged acts, but that Dehaan said no one would believe her since he was a doctor and she had psychiatric “issues."
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