Military gynecologist is criminally charged following allegations he secretly videotaped sufferers

An Military gynecologist has been criminally charged following an investigation into allegations that he secretly videotaped sufferers throughout exams, the Military Workplace of Particular Trial Counsel mentioned Tuesday.

The Military charged Dr. Blaine McGraw, who practiced at Fort Hood, Texas, with indecent visible recording together with different offenses, together with conduct unbecoming of an officer, willful disobedience of a superior officer and making a false assertion.

The charged offenses are alleged to have occurred between Jan. 1 and Dec. 1, with the bulk going down throughout medical examinations with feminine sufferers on the Carl R. Darnall Military Medical Heart at Fort Hood, the Military Workplace of Particular Trial Counsel mentioned. There are a complete of 44 victims, and the investigation continues, it added.

One sufferer, who was not a affected person, was secretly recorded at a personal residence close to Fort Hood, the trial counsel’s workplace mentioned. No different particulars have been supplied.

McGraw had already been in custody on the Bell County Jail after he was discovered final week to have violated “situations of liberty imposed by his commander,” Military officers have mentioned, with out elaborating.

McGraw’s lawyer, Daniel Conway, mentioned he had but to see the charging paperwork.

“I’m conscious that they cowl non-contact recording allegations,” Conway mentioned. “We anticipate the costs will cowl offenses for which Dr. McGraw was cooperative with legislation enforcement. We proceed to be cooperative whereas sustaining that no non-medically touching occurred.”

McGraw had been beneath investigation since October, when a affected person complained about him to Fort Hood officers. The Military Legal Investigation Division has recognized at the very least 30 ladies as having been photographed or videotaped, NBC Information reported final month.

Officers at Fort Hood and the Tripler Military Medical Heart in Hawaii, the place McGraw labored from June 2019 to June 2023, have despatched letters to sufferers informing them of the investigation and the creation of a hotline to report complaints.

The fees have been filed a couple of month after a former affected person sued McGraw, accusing him of recording intimate movies of her with out her information. The girl, who’s married to an active-duty service member with greater than 20 years in uniform, filed the lawsuit beneath the identify Jane Doe to guard her identification.

The lawsuit alleges that there are scores of further victims of McGraw’s misconduct and accuses Military management of permitting him to proceed training regardless of complaints about him that dated again years. Fort Hood officers have denied these allegations, saying they instantly suspended McGraw after a affected person complained about him.

Earlier than he practiced at Fort Hood, McGraw handled sufferers on the medical middle in Hawaii from June 2019 to June 2023. Tripler introduced final month that it was planning to inform McGraw’s former sufferers concerning the investigation and about easy methods to contact Military investigators and attain out to the hospital for help.