American Military News by Amy Renee Leiker 12/15/2019
The United States government has agreed to pay $6.97 million to settle dozens of civil lawsuits filed by military veterans sexually abused during medical exams in Kansas, attorneys for the veterans announced Tuesday.
Kansas City, Mo.-based law firm Brown and Curry said in a news release that the money is being shared by 82 victims of Mark Wisner, who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting veterans during improper and medically unnecessary genital exams from 2012 to 2014. The assaults, which included fondling and intrusive questions about patients’ sex lives, happened while veterans were under Wisner’s care at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leavenworth.
Wisner was convicted in criminal court in 2017 of criminal sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and sexual battery. The 68-year-old is listed as a minimum-security inmate in the Norton Correctional Facility.
The civil lawsuits say veterans administration officials ignored signs that Wisner “was committing widespread, large-scale malpractice†on patients and failed to report his conduct to police and the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, the state’s medical licensing agency.
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