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NEW KENT, Va. (AP)– The previous medical director of a Virginia healthcare facility that deals with susceptible kids and young people was acquitted Friday of sexually abusing 2 teenage clients throughout physical examinations.
Dr. Daniel Davidow worked for years as the medical director of the Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents, a center that deals with young clients with complicated medical requirements, consisting of persistent health problems, brain injuries and neurobehavioral conditions.
The charges versus Davidow were chosen by a judge rather of a jury. Judge B. Elliot Bondurant discovered Davidow innocent of 2 counts of a felony indecent liberties charge and 2 counts of item sexual penetration, likewise a felony.
Davidow’s lawyer, Craig Cooley, stated the innocent decision was “based upon the proof and the absence of trustworthiness of the plaintiffs.”
“He understood that this is what ought to take place and is really delighted that this is what did occur,” Cooley stated.
“Nothing that takes place will alter the truth that the allegation alone besmirches someone’s character and their credibility, and he comprehends that he can’t alter individuals’s action to an allegation, however we believe this decision is a vindication of sorts,” Cooley stated.
Throughout a 4-day trial, district attorneys stated Davidow utilized physical examinations as a “ploy” to sexually abuse 2 female clients. Davidow and his lawyers emphatically rejected any unsuitable conduct.
Cooley explained Davidow, 71, as a devoted doctor dedicated to assisting even the most hard or clinically complicated kids.
Cooley likewise raised issues about the previous clients’ inspirations, keeping in mind that they are each looking for lots of countless dollars in a pending civil case versus Davidow, the medical facility and its moms and dad business. Because case, lots of previous clients have actually implicated him of improper touching, claims he likewise has actually rejected.
The girls, who were teens when they were confessed to Cumberland, both affirmed, each stating Davidow searched their breasts and genital areas throughout a physical examination as part of the admissions procedure.
“I destroyed. I remained in shock,” one female informed the court.
T. Scott Renick, the leading district attorney in New Kent County east of Richmond, where the health center lies, stated in his opening declaration that the women remained in incredibly susceptible conditions, living without their moms and dads or other caretakers at the property center that focuses on intricate cases and in some cases takes clients from other states under court order.
Renick stated that as the medical director for the healthcare facility, Davidow “had total control over them.”
Kevin Biniazan, a lawyer who represents the 2 females in a civil suit, stated the females “understood they were combating an organization, not simply a male, and they were not discouraged.”
“Our customers showed real guts,” he stated.
The Associated Press is not calling either lady due to the fact that it typically does not determine those who state they have actually been sexually attacked.