A legislation agency has filed seven authorized complaints towards the U.S. Army and Pentagon, one for every of seven victims sexually abused or non-consensually videotaped by a health care provider at Fort Hood.
The U.S. Army Workplace of Particular Trial Counsel (OSTC) on Dec. 9 introduced that it had most well-liked 4 prices and 61 specs towards Maj. Blaine McGraw, 47, an obstetrician gynecologist who was assigned to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Heart situated in Fort Hood, Texas. The OSTC conducts unbiased oversight and prosecution of homicide, sexual assault, home violence, little one abuse, kidnapping and different severe legal offenses.
McGraw is charged with 54 specs for indecent visible recording, 5 specs of conduct unbecoming an officer, one specification of willful disobedience of a superior officer, and one specification of creating a false official assertion in violation of a number of articles of the Uniform Code of Army Justice.
“In accordance with present insurance policies, we don’t touch upon pending or ongoing litigation,” an Army spokesperson instructed Army.com on Monday.
The Army alleges that McGraw’s purported crimes occurred on a number of events between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 1, 2025. They mentioned nearly all of the alleged offenses occurred throughout medical examinations with feminine sufferers on the Fort Hood medical heart. One other sufferer who was not a affected person was additionally secretly video recorded at a personal residence off-post close to Fort Hood.
McGraw’s alleged actions have been first being investigated by the Army in late October, when his identify had not but been made public. On the time he was described solely as a suspended physician who was now not performing providers for sufferers.
The Army final mentioned there are 44 victims on this case however the actual quantity could possibly be larger.
Extra Expenses Are Doable
The legislation agency Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight on Monday filed seven Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) administrative complaints towards the Army, the Protection Well being Company, and the Division of Protection on behalf of seven Jane Does—all of whom have been purportedly impacted by McGraw’s actions in Fort Hood and on the Tripler Army Medical Heart in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Christine Dunn, co-managing associate of the nationwide civil rights and public curiosity legislation agency, and two others are representing the victims.
“I believe [the charges so far announced against DeGraw are] in all probability just the start,” Dunn instructed Army.com. “I’d anticipate there would doubtless be extra prices. I do not assume that the present set of prices encompasses the total vary of his legal conduct so I can’t be shocked if extra prices are coming.”
FTCA complaints start after people file an administrative criticism with the company at fault. In flip, that company is afforded not less than six months to research the declare. As soon as that point interval expires, a person can file a lawsuit towards the company in federal courtroom.
Two Army Medical doctors, Two Related Circumstances
A case like this isn’t new to Dunn, the co-chair of her agency’s Sexual Violence, Title IX, and Victims’ Rights Follow Group. She has additionally represented 45 victims and filed tort claims on their behalf in a case involving one other Army physician, Maj. Michael Stockin, 39, who beforehand pleaded responsible to sexually abusing male servicemembers.
On Jan. 15, 2025, Stockin was sentenced to 164 months in jail by a navy decide on the Cascade Courtroom Advanced, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. He was dismissed from the Army, misplaced his medical license, and was pressured to forfeit all pay and allowances.
“Within the [Stockin] case…they rolled them out, the costs,” Dunn mentioned. “I believe three totally different rounds of them, so I will not be shocked to see one thing related right here. I mentioned this in my final case, I’ll say it right here too, that I’m glad that [McGraw] is going through prices and that I hope that he will probably be handled adequately within the legal course of.”
“This is not simply the story of a rogue physician, it is also the story of an establishment that failed these sufferers.”
“But in addition, the Army’s concerned right here, too. That is the place I are available, to try to maintain the Army accountable as effectively. This is not simply the story of a rogue physician, it is also the story of an establishment that failed these sufferers.”
McGraw Case ‘Even Larger’ Army Scandal
The Stockin and McGraw circumstances share plenty of similarities, Dunn added, saying that each have medical backgrounds and have been “in a position to abuse dozens, possibly lots of, of sufferers.”
Concurrently, she mentioned that the Army as an establishment hasn’t been doing a adequate job to oversee or display screen such medical doctors, or to heed purple flags.
“I believed that [Stockin] was the largest sexual abuse scandal the Army has ever seen, and I believe this McGraw one is even larger,” she mentioned.
McGraw appeared to have “an M.O.” as Dunn described, citing the victims’ complaints about non-consensual filming and present process pointless medical procedures.
“[He was] simply doing it in a method that doesn’t really feel medical, it felt extra sexual,” she mentioned. “I believe these appear to be type of the themes that seem time and again in all these ladies’s tales.”
McGraw is being held in pretrial confinement on the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas.
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