NBC: Pennsylvania pediatrician who admitted to molesting dozens of children sentenced to up to 158 years in prison
Dr. Johnnie Barto (Todd Berkey / The Tribune-Democrat via AP) On Monday, Dr. Johnnie “Jack” Barto, 71, was sentenced to between 79 and 158 years in prison for sexually abusing 31 children over his career. He will most assuredly die in prison. The Pennsylvania pediatrician “pleaded guilty to assaulting two family members and no contest to assaulting more then two dozen patients, one as young as two weeks old.”1 This sentence comes almost 20 years after he was cleared of allegations by the state board of medicine because the allegations were “incongruous to his reputation.”1 Attorney General Josh Shapiro called the disgraced doctor a “serial...
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