Tuesday 2 August 2022 09:21 PM Dentist, 65, barred from treating women after being accused of sexually abusing ... trends now
A Florida dentist has been barred from treating women after he was accused of sexually abusing at least 22 females after a patient claimed he tried to pull her hands toward his crotch during a procedure.
Charles Emmanuel Stamitoles, 65, of Pensacola, has been arrested four times since late May over sexual abuse accusations from his dentistry patients and former staff. His latest arrest follows the allegations of a 74-year-old patient.
He was booked into the Escambia County Jail on Friday and charged with felony battery -- his first felony charge, according to WEAR TV. He has since been released on a $25,000 bond.
He has been accused of trying to force patients to touch his crotch by guiding their hands, touching their breasts and making inappropriate comments to patients and staff, WEAR TV reported.
Charles Emmanuel Stamitoles, 65, of Pensacola, Fla.
Stamitoles has been accused so many times that Florida licensing officials held an emergency injunction in June, barring him from treating female patients as he posed a 'significant danger' to them.
'Dr. Stamitoles has exhibited a pattern of increasingly predatory and sexually aggressive behavior. Dr. Stamitoles has willfully abused his position as a dentist to sexually violate patients,' the court documents said.
Complaints against him go back as far as at least 2003, when Marta Andrews accused him of battery. That case ended in an acquittal. Florida's statute of limitations prevents him from being charged in other alleged cases of inappropriate behavior.
In 2018, a woman reported on June 3 that the dentist 'placed his legs around her head' while in the reclining chair. He also allegedly kissed her cheek.
In another June 3 report, a woman claimed the dentist had pulled her shirt and bra strap off her shoulder and began rubbing her tattoo, arm and thigh, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
He has been accused of forcibly kissing female patients, trying to force their hands toward his crotch and saying inappropriate things to them. In June, an emergency injunction was ordered, limiting his license to only treat male patients
Another unnamed woman filed a report on June 7 about a November 2019 incident, where Stamitoles allegedly gave her 'gas' to help with her anxiety and, after the procedure, allegedly kissed her cheek.
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