“He should be in jail,” the mother of a 15-year-old, who won a $1.3 million civil suit against Dr. Martin Seth Forman, told NBC News.
LANSDOWNE, Va. — A Virginia pediatrician hit with a $1.3 million civil verdict for barging into a 15-year-old patient’s home under the guise of making an unscheduled “house call” and allegedly fondling the girl’s breasts still has a license to practice medicine.But Dr. Martin Seth Forman has never been charged with a crime.
Hanging on a wall in the waiting room is a framed photo of a Washingtonian magazine “Top Doctors” cover from September 2015 that has Forman’s name directly below it and several more framed magazine covers and plaques featuring the doctor. This was the first time the teenager, who is identified in court papers just by the initials MA, had seen Forman, according to a court order.
MA’s mother said Forman stood over her daughter and touched the sides of her breasts while talking to the girl about plays his daughter had been in, according to the court order. Forman told the 15-year-old that if she still felt ill, she could “come over to my house and watch those videos" of the plays together, the mother testified.
The police interviewed the mother March 29, 2017, and according to a case report written by Det. John Miller, police said that the mother told them she did not “observe him touch her daughter in a sexual manner” and that she at no time asked the doctor to leave the house. “She said she was trying to act nice because she was scared since it was just she and her daughters at home,” the report states.
The Reston Pediatrics lawyer did confirm to Orr that Forman had spoken about the play with MA during the examination and did try to reach MA’s mother the next day to see how her daughter was feeling. When MA’s mother did not respond, Forman “became concerned and responded to the house,” the lawyer, who is not identified by name, said in the police narrative.The mother took out a protective order against the doctor March 31, 2017, records show.
MA’s mother also filed a complaint against Forman with the state Department of Health Professions, which regulates doctors, Magner said. She received a reply on July 20, 2017. Powers noted in the email that the state’s Board of Medicine “must have ‘clear and convincing’ evidence to substantiate a violation” and “if a physician is seen as a ‘substantial danger’ to the public, the Board is authorized to summarily suspend the license without providing a hearing first.”
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