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Interesting that you would use the phrase "His name is mud".

Correct my ignorance of American History but I seem to recall that phrase
arose from an Lincoln's assassination and Samuel Mudd. Mudds family is still
trying to clear their name through the courts over a hundred years later.

The Military Records of Dr. Samuel Mudd
by Eric Longley

http://www.eclectica.org/v5n2/longley.html


"Tony Bad" <SpamSpamSpam@bakedbeans.spam> wrote in message
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> Why is the woman's name not mentioned due to "the nature of the charges",
but the doctor's name gets dragged thru the mud before a
> trial. He may be guilty, and if so, drag away, but what if he isn't? His
name is mud anyway.
>
> It happened in my area where a dentist was accused of molesting a woman
who had come for an emergency to an otherwise "empty" office
> for an after-hours visit. She accused the doctor of molesting her for an
hour or more. What she didn't know was the doctor had
> ongoing renovations being done, and 10 workman were in the next room
quietly waiting for him to take care of the emergency. Then
> later it turned out this woman and her boyfriend had been doing this to
doctors around the country.
>
> When the story first broke it was front page news, complete with a picture
of the office. When the truth came out you could barely
> find the story. For years after the patients would refer to him as that
guy who raped that girl.
>
> His life was ruined by a false accusation. Until guilt is proven, no names
should be revealed. Lives hang in the balance.
>
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> "Sylvia Kaplan" <skaplan@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3D65EF1A.FB19FE50@nospam.com...
> > Dentist denies he improperly touched a woman patient
> > DePadua is being tried in sex offense, assault case
> >
> > By Lisa Goldberg
> > Sun Staff
> > Originally published August 23, 2002
> >
> > An Ellicott City dentist denied yesterday that he ever improperly
> > touched a young woman in his care - although he did acknowledge
> > that tests he says he performed on her earlier this year were
> > never recorded in her medical files.
> >
> > Dr. Evan C. DePadua testified in Howard County Circuit Court that
> > the 22-year-old Pennsylvania woman's version of the events that
> > transpired on Jan. 19 - including allegations that he pulled her
> > pants down and rubbed her thighs while she was mildly anesthetized
> > and unable to react - could not have happened the way she said.
> >
> > Although a question-and-answer form he filled out at the behest
> > of Howard police investigators includes an admission that he
> > touched the woman's thigh, but "not in a sexual way," DePadua,
> > 37, said a detective pressured him during an interview that
> > lasted several hours to change his answer from his original denial.
> >
> > "They were threatening me. They were browbeating me," he said
> > during the second day of testimony in his trial on fourth-degree
> > sexual offense and misdemeanor assault charges.
> >
> > Closing arguments in the case, which is being tried by Judge
> > Diane O. Leasure instead of a jury, are scheduled to begin this
> > morning.
> >
> > DePadua, a Brazilian native who was first licensed as a Maryland
> > dentist in 1997, was the last person to testify in a case that
> > largely pits his word against that of the 22-year-old woman, who
> > had been a patient of his for more than a year at the time of the
> > incident.
> >
> > The Sun is not naming the woman because of the nature of the charges.
> >
> > Statements critical
> >
> > As a result, DePadua's statements to police - as well as changes
> > he made to his version of events and omissions in the woman's
> > dental files - are expected to be critical as Leasure weighs the
> > evidence.
> >
> > Both DePadua, who practices in the 10300 block of Baltimore
> > National Pike, and police investigators testified that when
> > confronted, the dentist at first denied ever giving the woman
> > nitrous oxide, then later told officers that he did.
> >
> > According to testimony, the gas dulls patients and makes them
> > "compliant."
> >
> > Also, DePadua wrote in the woman's medical file that he only
> > tightened her braces Jan. 19, but he testified that he also
> > performed a test for a jaw disorder and cut around two teeth
> > that day.
> >
> > The woman said she told her husband and brother what happened
> > not long after the dental visit.
> >
> > On Wednesday, she broke down after she testified that DePadua
> > at first tried to pull her pants down while she was in the
> > examination chair and then stood her up against a wall - all
> > the while increasing the nitrous oxide flow - lowered her tight
> > jeans and rubbed her thighs.
> >
> > DePadua broke a belt loop on her jeans during the incident,
> > she said.
> >
> > The nitrous oxide made her feel "out of it," she said.
> >
> > "All I could do was stand there," she said, crying. "I was
> > leaning against the wall. I was dizzy."
> >
> > DePadua's dentistry license has been restricted since the accusation.
> >
> > Practice restrictions
> >
> > The Maryland State Board of Dental Examiners declined last
> > month to suspend him while the criminal case was pending but
> > ordered that he not see patients alone, administer nitrous oxide
> > or prescribe drugs.
> >
> > The order also includes details of complaints made by three
> > other patients of inappropriate touching and comments and of
> > an instance when DePadua is alleged to have left a sedated
> > patient alone in an examination room.
> >
> > None of those complaints has resulted in criminal charges.
> > ===============================
> >
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