Twin Pediatricians - gross sexual imposition among other charges

[Today]

Scott and Mark Blankenburg pleaded not guilty earlier this month on 76 counts total, including corruption of a minor, gross sexual imposition, compelling prostitution, pandering sexual material involving a minor, money laundering and bribery. 

Some of the sex charges the brothers face involve minors between 13 and 16 - some involve younger children. In a new court document released yesterday, investigators accuse the brothers of performing sex acts on the patients, taking their photos, getting them hooked on prescriptions like Oxycodone, Percocet and Xanax, and then paying those to keep quiet. The alleged incidents occurred between 1987 and 2008.

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Twin Pediatricians To Be Tried Separately

[Sassycat]

Scott and Mark Blankenburg pleaded not guilty earlier this month on 76 counts total, including corruption of a minor, gross sexual imposition, compelling prostitution, pandering sexual material involving a minor, money laundering and bribery. 

Some of the sex charges the brothers face involve minors between 13 and 16 - some involve younger children. In a new court document released yesterday, investigators accuse the brothers of performing sex acts on the patients, taking their photos, getting them hooked on prescriptions like Oxycodone, Percocet and Xanax, and then paying those to keep quiet. The alleged incidents occurred between 1987 and 2008.

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Twin Pediatricians To Be Tried Separately

This is crazy.   If you can't trust your doctor, who can you trust?    If I were one of the parents of these children, I would want these guys put to death.   This story sickens me.   

[SunnyinTX]

Scott and Mark Blankenburg pleaded not guilty earlier this month on 76 counts total, including corruption of a minor, gross sexual imposition, compelling prostitution, pandering sexual material involving a minor, money laundering and bribery. 

Some of the sex charges the brothers face involve minors between 13 and 16 - some involve younger children. In a new court document released yesterday, investigators accuse the brothers of performing sex acts on the patients, taking their photos, getting them hooked on prescriptions like Oxycodone, Percocet and Xanax, and then paying those to keep quiet. The alleged incidents occurred between 1987 and 2008.

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Twin Pediatricians To Be Tried Separately

OHMYGAWD!  I think that has to be cause for justifiable homicide!  I'd kill anyone that every harmed my child.

[MuffyBee]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-twin-doctors-plea,0,2073450.story

Ohio pediatrician pleads guilty to sexual conduct with minor, sentenced to 13 years in prison

LISA CORNWELL  Associated Press Writer

January 14, 2010 |

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A pediatrician pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and six other crimes involving former patients and must serve 13 years in prison.

Scott Blankenburg, 54, also pleaded guilty to compelling prostitution, illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance, pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor, complicity to obtain a dangerous drug and two counts of bribery.

He agreed to the 13-year term in a plea deal made with Butler County prosecutors in exchange for his pleas. He did not plead guilty to sex crimes involving his former patients.

He will begin serving the sentence Feb. 15. He also must pay a $7,500 fine and agreed to pay a $27,500 fine levied against his twin brother in a similar case.

The brother, Mark Blankenburg, a fellow pediatrician, was sentenced last week to 21 to 27 years in prison for sex crimes involving former patients, money laundering and drug charges.

Blankenburg, who lived in Hamilton with his brother, had offices in nearby Fairfield while his brother mostly practiced in Hamilton. They were indicted in March.

He had initially been charged with 28 counts, including sex counts involving two of his patients and two of his brother's patients.

Authorities say the unlawful sexual conduct involved a 15-year-old boy, now in his 20s, who came forward after the original indictment. Prosecutors said Scott Blankenburg performed oral sex on the teen between 2002 and 2003 and bribed him to keep quiet. Prosecutors did not give additional details on those allegations.

Additional bribery charges and drug crimes occurred as recently as last year, prosecutors said.

Mark Blankenburg still faces trial in May on pornography charges stemming from photos the brothers took of high school athletes during games. Prosecutors said some pictures, although not illegal, focused inappropriately on certain body parts.