Predator doctor Johnnie Barto and his practice hit with first lawsuit since he was jailed.
fondled her 10-year-old son’s genitals during an asthma examination, one of the other doctors at the practice offered her own diagnosis.
Whether Confer did talk to the now-convicted Barto about the October 2016 abuse accusation was not made clear in the court papers. “By employing Barto,” Laurel Pediatric Associates and Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center allegedly endangered the victims, the lawsuit, which is seeking unspecified monetary damages, states.Both entities were aware that Barto had been previously accused of molesting patients, and they kept him on the payroll anyway, the papers state.
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