A former Pennsylvania pediatrician was sentenced to at least 79 years in prison for the sexual assault of 31 children in a case that state medical regulators failed to act on nearly two decades ago.
Johnnie Barto, left, heads into Cambria County Courthouse in Ebensburg, Pa., on Monday. The pediatrician assaulted 31 children, including an infant.
Dr. Johnnie Barto was sentenced on dozens of counts, including aggravated indecent assault and child endangerment. Prosecutors said he spent decades abusing boys and girls in the exam room at his pediatric practice in western Pennsylvania and at local hospitals, with his victims typically ranging in age from 8 to 12. One was an infant.
Authorities had a chance to stop Barto in 2000, when he appeared before the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine on administrative charges that he molested two young girls in the 1990s. But regulators threw out the case and allowed him to keep practicing medicine, saying the allegations were"incongruous to his reputation." At the time, the prominent pediatrician had a lot of support in the community.
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