Both victims and family of Wyoming chiropractor weep after Gregory Freeman found guilty of fondling two patients

Published: 2009-07-04 00:18:20
Author: Barton Deiters | The Grand Rapids Press | June 18, 2009

GRAND RAPIDS -- There was weeping on both sides of the courtroom as a jury found Wyoming chiropractor Gregory Alan Freeman guilty of two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct for fondling the breasts of two women at his 36th Street SW office.

Freeman's wife and children clung to each other and sobbed as the verdict was announced Thursday. Kent County Circuit Judge Mark Trusock remanded the 49-year-old to the Kent County Jail, where he will remain until he is sentenced on Aug. 6. He faces up to two years behind bars.

On the other side of the courtroom, the two victims also hugged and wept. They testified about how they went to Freeman seeking treatment and instead were assaulted.

One woman was a former employee who said she was also exposed to pornography, inappropriate comments regarding her body and crude come-ons from her boss.

The other woman admitted that she and her 19-year-old daughter joined Freeman in the basement of his office, where he had a disco ball-decorated bar area where Pabst Blue Ribbon and Jagermeister shots flowed. She said Freeman wanted her to expose herself in payment for a chiropractic treatment and when she refused, the chiropractor grabbed her breast.

The victim said Freeman also grabbed her buttocks as she went up the stairs in front of him. The jury found Freeman not guilty on that charge.

Over three days, Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Christopher Becker argued that Freeman had engaged in a breast-obsessed pattern of abuse against women, which he indulged under the guise of providing "applied kinesiology" treatments designed to improve patients' lymphatic flow.

"This was never about applied kinesiology and the jury saw through that," Becker said following the verdict. "What he did was not applied kinesiology."

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