AN
AN AUSTIN
AN AUSTIN MAN CLAIMS HE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY A MEDICAL PROFSIONAL HE TRUSTED
-- HIS DENTIST.
BUT THE KVUE DEFENDERS FOUND--
WHEN HE REPORTED IT
TO POLICE -- HE LEARNED THIS
TYPE OF ASSAULT
AMOUNTS TO NO MORE THAN A
MISDEMEANOR.
KVUE'S KRIS BETTS SAT DOWN WITH
HIM -- AS HE FIGHTS
TO CHANGE THAT.
IT'S EASY TO FEEL VULNERABLE --
IN THIS CHAIR WHERE WE TRUST -- OUR DENTISTS
-- WILL TAKE CARE OF
WHAT'S WRONG --
BUT
BUT NOT
BUT NOT ALL PAIN --- CAN BE DULLED --- BY NOVACAINE...
15:22:32:00 "THE RIGHT SIDE OF
MY BODY STOPPED
WORKING. I WOULD JUST BE WALKING
AND IT WOULD STOP. I
WAS STUTTERING, SLURRING."
STARTING IN LATE 2010 --- JOSHUA
MCBRIDE
EXPERIENCED SUDDEN --
UNEXPLAINED SYMPTOMS --
THAT ONLY GOT WORSE --
FOR YEARS -- HE SAYS -- DOCTORS
TRIED TO FIGURE OUT
WHAT WAS WRONG -- PRESCRIBING
HIM DOZENS OF
DIFFERENT MEDICATIONS -- BEFORE
LEARNING IN
2013 -- MCBRIDE HAD A BROAD-
BASED ANEURISM ON
THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS BRAIN
15:23:13:00 "I HAD SKULL
RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY,
WHICH THEN FAILED. AND THEN IN
2015 I HAD A SKULL
IMPLANT PUT IN."
HE
HE ALSO
HE ALSO REALIZED THE THOUSANDS OF PILLS DOCTORS PRESCRIBED BUT THE TREATMENTS --
HAD WREAKED
HAVOC ON HIS DENTAL HEALTH
TEETH -- HE SAYS -- WOULD
RANDOMLY BREAK.
15:23:32:00 "
THAT MUST HAVE SCARED YOU A
LITTLE BIT.
YEAAA...CAUSE I THOUGHT OKAY,
ANEURISMS DONE,
EVERYTHING'S OVER WITH AND THEN
THE TEETH JUST STARTED
TO SNAP."
WHICH BROUGHT HIM -- TO A CLINIC
IN CENTRAL AUSTIN
15:24:49:00 "WHAT WAS THE GAME
PLAN FOR YOUR TEETH?"
15:25:01:00 "WE WERE JUST GOING
TO DO MOLDS FOR
DENTURES AT THAT TIME."
THE APPOINTMENT STARTED -- AS HE
EXPECTED
A NURSE TOOK MOLDS OF HIS TEETH.
BUT WHEN SHE WALKED OFF ----
MCBRIDE SAYS
HE NEVER EXPECTED WHAT HAPPENED
NEXT
15:25:46:00 "HE UST SAID HOW
MUCH WEIGHT HAVE YOU LOST?
AND I SAID ABOUT 20-30 POUNDS.
AND THAT'S WHEN HE
JUST
JUST PUT
JUST PUT HIS HAND UNDERNEAR MY PANTS AND MY
UNDERWEAR
UNDERWEAR AND GRABBED MY PENIS." 15:26:57:00 " YOU FROZE?
YEA....
"
YEA.... "
YEA.... " 15:29:23:00 "AND TO THIS DAY HE
TOOK SOMETHING
FROM ME THAT I'M TRYING SO HARD
TO GET BACK."
JOSHUA FILED A COMPLAINT WITH
THE TEXAS STATE BOARD OF
DENTAL EXAMINER
THE BOARD RESPONDED STATING:
"THERE IS NOT
SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT
FURTHER TSBDE
PROCEEDINGS"
HE ALSO WENT TO POLICE.THAT'S
WHEN MCBRIDE
ALSO LEARNED UNDER STATE LAW,
HIS ALLEGED ATTACK
IS CONSIDERED THE SAME LEVEL OF
OFFENSE....AS A
TRAFFIC TICKET.A CLASS C
MISDEMEANOR.
15:36:50:00 "IT TURNS OUT WHAT
THE DENTIST DID TO
ME WASN'T A FELONY."
15:50:26:00 "SADLY THIS ISN'T
THE FIRST TIME WE'VE
HEARD OF THIS HAPPENING."
CHRIS KAISER IS DIRECTOR OF
PUBLIC POLICY FOR TAASA --
THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION AGAINST
SEXUAL ASSAULT.
15:52:28:00 "THERE'S USUALLY NO
ARREST,
NOTHING HAPPENS TO THE
PERPETRATOR. EVEN IF THEY
GET A TICKET THEY CAN JUST KEEP
DOING IT OVER AND OVER
TO PEOPLE."
15:52:35:00 "LIKE A DOCTOR, A
MASSEUSE, A DENTIST...ANYBO
DY."
UNDER CURRENT TEXAS LAW --
UNLESS THE ATTACK
INCLUDES PENETRATION -- IT FALLS
UNDER ASSAULT BY
"OFFENSIVE" CONTACT . A CLASS C
MISDEMEANOR.
UNLESS THE VICTIM IS UNDER 17.
TEXAS -- ONE OF ONLY FIVE STATES
LEFT IN THE COUNTRY --
WITHOUT HARSHER PUNISHMENT
15:52:41:00 "I THINK IT SHOULD
BE SHOCKING TO ANY OF US.
15:52:50:00 "ASSUME THAT THE
POLICE CAN DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT AND IT'S ONLY AFTER
THEY
THEY REPORT IT THAT THEY FIND - THE LAW DOESN'T COVER THIS." TAASA BACKED A BILL IN THE 2017
LEGISLATIVE SESSION -- TO
MAKE ASSAULT BY OFFENSIVE
CONTACT -A FELONY -
BUT THAT BILL -- NEVER MADE IT
TO THE SENATE.
NOW --
15:56:11:00 "IT IS TIME."
THEY'RE PUSHING FOR PROGRESS --
ONCE AGAIN.
ONCE AGAIN.
AND
AND WITH
AND WITH NO WHERE ELSE TO TURN -- 15:42:08:00 "CHANGE DOESN'T
HAPPEN UNTIL
SOMEONE SPEAKS UP."
MCBRIDE IS FOCUSED ON TELLING
HIS STORY --
TRUSTING IT WILL GIVE HIM
CLOSURE.
15:43:41:00 "HE VIOLATED ME, BUT
THAT VIOLATION IS
GOING TO HELP SOMEONE IN THE
FUTURE...AND IT WILL NO LONGER
HURT SOMEONE IN THE FUTURE THE
WAY IT HURT ME.
FOR NOW-- WE ARE NOT NAMING THE
DENTIST JOSHUA MCBRIDE CLAIMS ASSAULTED HIM
BECAUSE NO CRIMINAL
CHARGES HAVE FILED AGAINST HIM.
BUT MCBRIDE FILED A FORMAL
COMPLAINT IN MUNICIPAL
COURT.
WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.
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