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A Rhode Island pediatrician has been charged with molesting a seven-year-old girl and has surrendered his medical license.
Dr David S. Healey, 51, from Barringon, is being held without bail after the alleged attack on the girl who was not a patient but was known to him.
The doctor, who practiced as a pediatrician in Worcester, Massachusetts since 2024 and North Providence, Rhode Island since 2020, gave up both his medical licenses last week.
The little girl did not tell her parents about the alleged abuse right away, but her mother said she noticed her daughter ‘acting strangely’ and told the police later that her daughter had allegedly disclosed to a therapist that she was being abused.
Healey was charged with first-degree child molestation, a crime that carries a penalty of 25 years to life in prison, though his sentence is not yet known. He was set to
