The Arizona Board of Dental Examiners has dominated that an East Valley dentist should have a chaperone current for all appointments involving minors after his former worker was accused of sexually assaulting three sufferers, all youthful than 10.
Native media outlet AZCentral reported Tuesday that the choice adopted a lawsuit towards dental assistant Deion Garcia, 28, who was employed at Kidiatric Dental in Chandler. The alleged assaults happened in September 2022 and Might 2024. Citing court docket paperwork, one other native media ABC15 reported that the alleged victims; two had been six years previous and one other was 4 years previous.
A lawsuit filed in October 2024 by the dad and mom of 1 woman names each Garcia and Kidiatric Dental. The criticism alleges that the 2022 assault occurred whereas Garcia was taking X-rays of their daughter and that he didn’t have the required certification to take radiographs on the time.
In accordance with a criticism filed by the state dental board, the woman’s dad and mom knowledgeable Dr. Walter Villanueva of the alleged assault. Nonetheless, Dr. Villanueva decided nothing had occurred and that he didn’t take additional steps to forestall Garcia from being alone with minors.
In response to the findings, the board imposed a full apply restriction on Villanueva and ordered that chaperones be current at his two places of work till proceedings involving Garcia are full.
