Southern Indiana chiropractor investigated for sexual misconductPublished: 2009-06-20 15:56:05Author: Matt Thacker | Evening News and Tribune | May 20, 2009A New Albany chiropractor with a practice in Clarksville is under
investigation for sexual misconduct after four female patients have
filed complaints with police since 2007.
Dr. Robert Matthew
Nolan — who goes by his middle name and operates Nolan Chiropractic
Center at 1370 Veterans Parkway — has been accused of touching two
women in their private areas and kissing two underage girls without
their consent. All of the allegations reportedly occurred at his
practice.
Nolan, 39, denies he ever kissed or touched a patient inappropriately.
“I’ve
never done anything even remotely illegal or immoral in my practice, or
outside my practice for that matter,” Nolan told The Evening News and
The Tribune. “I have a family. I have children. I’m very active in my
church. I have a decent practice. And I’m well-respected in the
community.”
According to his Web site, Nolan has four daughters and volunteers with the New Albany High School Dog Dads program.
One
Jeffersonville woman, 21 at the time, talked to Clarksville Police
Department detectives a couple days after Nolan allegedly touched her
Dec. 5, 2007.
According to a police report, Nolan was rubbing
the woman’s upper thighs when his hand went under her underwear and
brushed her private area. At that time, she reportedly told him to stop.
She
told The Evening News that it was her fourth or fifth visit. She said
that in her previous visit, she thought Nolan was touching her
inappropriately, but said nothing.
“I thought maybe I was being
over-sensitive,” she said. “You trust a doctor. You think whatever he’s
doing, he’s supposed to do.”
The woman said Nolan had seemed friendly and had Biblical sayings and pictures of his family in his office.
When
she left after that final visit, she said she noticed that the
receptionist had left and she and Nolan had been alone in the office.
Nolan denies that he was ever alone with a patient.
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