Doctor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Multiple Elderly, Disabled Patients
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.
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