BECKLEY, W.Va. — A former doctor employed by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Beckley has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for sexual abuse of patients.
U.S. District Judge Frank W. Volk sentenced Jonathan Yates, 52, of Bluefield, Virginia, to 300 months in prison and three years of supervised release Monday afternoon in Beckley.
Volk told Yates he caused the physical pain and embarrassment of multiple veterans and had victims thinking about taking their own lives.
“I was puzzled and sometimes shocked at the lack of remorse, the explanations at some point that didn’t make sense. I am left with the conclusion that he (Yates) has not yet come to grips with the harm or wrongdoing that is present in this case,” Volk said to the courtroom.
Yates pleaded guilty last September to three counts of depriving veterans of their civil rights under the color of law by sexually abusing them. Yates admitted to rubbing the genitals of two veterans and digitally penetrating a third person’s rectum without any legitimate medical purpose.
Jonathan Yates
Yates was indicted in May 2020 for sexually molesting six patients from September 2018 to February 2019.
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Here is an update on an article that I previously published. (See below for original article).
January 24, 2021 – 8:10 pm
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A former doctor employed by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Beckley will be sentenced Monday for sexually abusing patients during exams.
Jonathan Yates, 51, of Bluefield, Virginia, pleaded guilty last September to three counts of depriving veterans of their civil rights under color of law by sexually abusing them.
The sentencing before U.S. Judge Frank Volk is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the federal courthouse in Beckley.
Yates admitted to rubbing the genitals of two veterans and digitally penetrating a third person’s rectum without any legitimate medical purpose. The veterans were seeking treatment for chronic pain through osteopathic manipulative therapy, yet Yates’ actions caused additional pain.
Yates was indicted in May 2020 for sexually molesting six patients from September 2018 to February 2019.
He faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
I’ll update this when the sentence is announced later today.
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