The office of Virginia's attorney general has handed off jurisdiction in a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses at a hospital that serves vulnerable children
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The facility, located in a bucolic setting in New Kent County, about half an hour east of the state capital, treats children and young adults with complex medical needs, including chronic illnesses, brain injuries and neurobehavioral disorders. One, a 72-year-old psychotherapist, was charged with sexually abusing a patient and died by suicide the same day he was due in court for a plea hearing. The other, a behavioral technician, was sentenced in December to a year in prison after pleading no contest to an allegation that she intentionally burned a disabled child with scalding water.
“The Attorney General’s Office just wasn’t proceeding at this time,” he said, referring questions about the reason why to Miyares' office. The Cumberland hospital is a subsidiary of publicly traded, Pennsylvania-based Universal Health Services Inc., which operates behavioral health and other health care facilities across the country and was also named as a defendant in Biniazan’s clients’ lawsuit.
In three lawsuits filed by Biniazan, 39 former female patients allege that Davidow sexually abused them during exams. Many of the women, who are suing using pseudonyms, say Davidow claimed he needed to check their femoral pulse and then put his hand under their clothing and intentionally touched their vaginas, sometimes penetrating them with his fingers.
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