RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Virginia physician accused of sexually abusing two disabled kids at a residential kids’s hospital in New Kent County continues to be licensed to follow medication in Virginia, based on state data.
In an indictment unsealed by prosecutors final week, Daniel Davidow is charged with 4 counts associated to his alleged sexual abuse of two kids in late 2017 and early 2018. On all 4 counts, the indictment notes that Davidow dedicated the abuses by exploiting “the sufferer’s psychological incapacity and or bodily helplessness.”
And data held by the Virginia Medical Board, the physique which oversees medical licensure within the commonwealth, present that Davidow’s license to follow continues to be legitimate, and received’t expire till October 2024. Below Virginia regulation, docs should renew their license each two years.
Which means Davidow’s license would have been renewed by the board round October 2020 — three years after Virginia State Police started an investigation into widespread abuse on the troubled hospital in 2017.
As a part of that investigation, a psychotherapist on the facility was accused of sexually abusing a affected person there, however dedicated suicide on the day he was set to plead responsible.
One other behavioral technician pleaded no contest — successfully the identical as a responsible plea — to fees associated to an incident through which she deliberately burned a toddler with scalding water.
The hospital’s web site states that the power serves kids with “mind harm, power sickness or neurobehavioral points.”
If convicted on all counts, Davidow would face a compulsory minimal of 12 years in jail beneath the code of Virginia, and will withstand life in jail.
