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February 15, 2019

U.S. Indian Health Service Faces Probe After Pedophile Doctor Allowed to Keep Working for Decades
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Department of Health and Human Services has launched a probe of the
Indian Health Service over its mishandling of a doctor accused of
pedophilia. The doctor, Stanley Patrick Weber, was the focus of a recent
investigation by PBS "Frontline" and The Wall Street Journal. In 1995,
Indian Health Service officials concluded Weber was molesting children,
but the agency allowed him to keep working for another 21 years,
continually transferring him from reservation to reservation. He was
eventually convicted in 2018 and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.


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