Doctor jailed in US for sexually assaulting 31 children
He was seen as a pillar of the community and used his authority 'as a cloak to feed his own sick desires'
A US paediatrician faces at least 79 years in jail for sexually assaulting 31 children, mostly his patients, in what authorities describe as a “horrendous series of crimes” that stretched over decades.
The majority of the assaults by paediatrician Dr Johnnie Barto, 71, took place in examination rooms at a practice in the town of Johnstown, around 100km east of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania.
