Local chiropractor pleads not guilty to sexual assault chargesPublished: 2009-07-07 12:27:35Author: Desert Sun | June 24, 2009An Indio chiropractor being prosecuted on charges of sexually
assaulting several patients under the guise of medical examinations
pleaded not guilty today to three additional felony counts.
Stuart Greenwood, 58, who is out of custody on $100,000 bail,
previously pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual penetration and
three counts of sexual battery under unlawful restraint.
Deputy
District Attorney Brijida Rodarte told Superior Court Judge Thomas
Douglass that additional alleged victims have came forward since the
case was filed in mid-February, resulting in the amended seven-count
complaint.
The judge set an Aug. 4 preliminary hearing date.
Rodarte
said outside the courtroom that she could not discuss how many
additional alleged victims came forward, citing the ongoing
investigation.
Greenwood declined to comment on the allegations against him.
His attorney, John Jimenez, said he will prove the chiropractor's innocence.
"Our
investigation and our work in this case is indicating Dr. Greenwood did
nothing improper in any of the cases that have been alleged,'' Jimenez
said. "It will become evident there has been no wrongdoing by my
client.''
Greenwood is accused of sexually assaulting as many
as six patients between June 2006, when a woman claimed he touched her
inappropriately, to April 2008, when another woman alleged the
chiropractor penetrated her with his finger, according to a declaration
filed in support of an arrest warrant.
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