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| Mounting number of victims in VA hospital sex abuse scandal |
At atomic three lawsuits filed in contempo weeks in U.S. District Court in Kansas allege Mark Wisner of administering accidental and abnormal animal examinations at the Leavenworth VA Medical Center. He aswell faces bent accuse of aggravated bent sodomy, address and animal array in Leavenworth County, just alfresco Kansas City, Kansas.
Wisner surrendered his medical authorization endure year afterwards at atomic seven patients accused him of abuse, and medical regulators said at the time that others could appear forward.
Daniel Curry, who represents plaintiffs in two of the lawsuits, said Monday that his research, the allegation of the Kansas Lath of Healing Arts and his communications with added attorneys announce there could be dozens of victims.
Some of the lawsuits aswell name the Department of Veterans Affairs and the federal government.
In a accord adjustment endure year with the Kansas Lath of Healing Arts, Wisner agreed he abandoned the law by accepting inappropriate animal acquaintance with some patients, as able-bodied as authoritative inappropriate animal comments and overprescribing. The redacted adjustment does not detail which drugs or analysis he overprescribed.
The adjustment cites a January 2015 letter that Wisner beatific to the board.
"I am an broken practitioner and not able of accommodating care... I will not nor acquisition myself able of any accommodating acquaintance from the date of this letter and my authorization should be revoked from this date forward," he wrote.
A balloon date for his bent case has not been set.
"Not surprisingly, I don't accept a lot to say, except... that my applicant is innocent until accurate guilty," said Debra Snider, his bent aegis attorney.
Wisner is apery himself in a civilian case that was filed endure month, and no advocate is listed for two lawsuits filed endure week. He did not acknowledgment a buzz bulletin gluttonous animadversion larboard at his Holton home.
"We accept done a lot of sex corruption cases over the years, and it is consistently the being who has finagled their way into a position area they accept admission to a accessible population," Curry said, acquainted there is hardly anytime a attestant in a accommodating assay allowance area the patients have to await on a physician abettor for care, analysis and prescriptions.
More lawsuits are "in the pipeline," Curry said.
"We just achievement the VA does the appropriate affair for these vets," he said.
It is cryptic how continued Wisner formed at the Leavenworth facility. The hospital said it could not about altercate awaiting litigation, but its agent Joseph Burks said Tuesday in an email that it takes "very actively the assurance and well-being" of every adept patient. He referred questions to the Justice Department, area the being administration media inquiries on that case was not anon available.
Wisner's authorization to convenance as a physician abettor was issued in 1993, and he voluntarily surrendered it to the Kansas Lath of Healing Arts in in February 2015, according to the accord decree filed with the accompaniment authoritative board.
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