Former Pennsylvania pediatrician admits to assaulting dozens of young patients
Source: NBC/AP
Nearly two decades after Pennsylvania state regulators let him off the hook, a former pediatrician admitted in court Thursday that he sexually assaulted 31 children, most of them patients.
Dr. Johnnie Barto of Johnstown pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two family members and admitted to sexually assaulting more than two dozen patients.
The abuse spanned decades and typically involved girls and boys between ages 8 and 12, prosecutors said. One of the victims was 2 weeks old. Barto molested children in the exam room at Laurel Pediatric Associates in Cambria County and at local hospitals, according to the
Barto, 71, was arrested in January and charged with groping a 12-year-old girl during an office visit several weeks earlier. Suspecting she might not be alone, the attorney general's office put out a call for other accusers to come forward — and they did, by the dozen, with claims going back to the late 1980s.
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And the children? Who knows the damage he did to them?
The Tribune-Democrat
Oct 7, 2018
Here is a time line of key dates in various cases involving allegations of child sexual abuse against Johnstown pediatrician Dr. Johnnie "Jack" Barto:
February 1994: A 4-year-old patient accuses Barto of touching her private area in an office medical closet after her mother stepped out of the room. The patient's mother files a report with the local county children and youth services and police.
1998: After a complaint is filed with the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs regarding the 1994 allegations, the group questions the patient's perception of the incident based on her age at the time of the alleged offense and the passage of time between the event and when the complaint was filed with the state.
1998: Barto faces civil allegations that he inappropriately touched three girls – ages 3, 4, and 13 – during office visits at Johnstown Pediatrics over a period of four years.
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