The two pending youngster sex charges against Dr. Om Kapoor comply with an earlier conviction for exposing his sexual organs to a affected person.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The video with this story is from an earlier, associated report.
A Jacksonville doctor has been charged with a further rely of sexual battery against a toddler below 12, based on new court docket filings within the 2020 case.
Dr. Om Kapoor is now charged with two counts of capital sexual battery stemming from an incident during which a toddler claims Kapoor sexually abused him throughout a sleepover at Kapoor’s home.
Kapoor was beforehand convicted of exposing his sexual organs in 2017 to a affected person at Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville, the place he practiced on the time. He was sentenced to 12 months in jail. He was acquitted of a further cost of battery.
According to the affected person, who was being handled for Lyme illness, the doctor insisted on intently analyzing him from the rear throughout a routine examination. The affected person instructed police he heard the doctor moaning and felt one thing moist hit his leg. When he rotated, he stated he noticed the doctor masturbating and ejaculating right into a serviette. After the doctor left, court docket data present, the affected person took the serviette to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and filed a legal criticism.
While that case was pending, an alleged youngster sufferer reported being pressured to carry out oral sex on the doctor whereas at his home a number of years earlier. That prompted an preliminary cost of capital sexual battery in 2020. The second cost, filed in early January, pertains to a second kind of alleged assault, based on the State Attorney’s Office, not an alleged second sufferer.
Kapoor’s medical license stays energetic, although the state Medical Board imposed a restriction on his observe. According to an emergency order filed in 2018 and amended final February, “Dr. Kapoor’s conduct of masturbating and ejaculating on a patient was so brazen and with such a wanton disregard for the laws and rules regulating the practice of medicine, that any male patient that presents to Dr. Kapoor for any purpose, is in danger of harm within the confines of the examination room.”
The report says that as a result of “Dr. Kapoor’s continued unrestricted practice as a medical doctor constitutes an immediate, serious danger to the health, safety, or welfare of the citizens” of Florida, the state was proscribing his license to “prohibit Om Parkash Kapoor, M.D., from treating and interacting with male patients without a healthcare professional holding a clear and active license with the Florida Department of Health physically present at all times…”
It’s not clear why the DOH restricted Kapoor’s interactions solely with male sufferers.
Kapoor is presently looking for to change the phrases of his bond. Court data present he needs to have his court-ordered ankle monitor eliminated. The movement says that for the reason that GPS monitoring machine was ordered, Kapoor “has been in perfect obedience with” the circumstances of his launch.
The movement notes that Kapoor “relinquished his First Amendment Constitutional right to practice freedom of religion by agreeing, without Court Order, to not attend services at his place of worship because the alleged victim and the alleged victim’s family are members of the same faith community.”
That voluntary sacrifice, the movement says, “is a compelling demonstration of his good faith intention to maintain perfect obedience to the requirement that he have no victim contact whatsoever.”
Kapoor is due again in court docket Tuesday morning.