New molestation charges filed against chiropractorPublished: 2009-12-10 06:28:00Author: Matt Thaker | News and Tribune | December 8, 2009The charges keep piling up against Robert Matthew Nolan, the
39-year-old former chiropractor accused of inappropriately touching
four patients and raping a teenage girl.
Nolan is now charged
with molesting that same girl, a relative of his, at his office at
Nolan Chiropractic Center along Veterans Parkway in Clarksville.
“It’s
a companion case to the one in Floyd County. It involves the same
victim,” Clark County Deputy Prosecutor Brittany Blau said.
Nolan
was charged in July in Floyd County Superior Court No. 3 with class C
felony child molesting, class B felony rape and two counts of class D
felony child seduction. Blau said the charges in Floyd County are based
on incidents that happened at his home, while the Clark County charges
are from incidents that happened at work.
The Clark County
Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against Nolan on Tuesday in Superior
Court No. 1 for class A felony child molesting, class C felony child
molesting, class C felony sexual misconduct with a minor, along with
two counts of class D felony sexual misconduct with a minor and two
counts of class B felony sexual misconduct with a minor.
He is
accused of fondling the girl and having oral sex with her. The
different levels of charges are based on the age of the victim at the
time of the alleged offenses. The child molesting charges are from
2005, when the alleged victim was 13. Sexual misconduct is the charge
when the victim is 14 through 16, while the rape reportedly occurred
after the girl turned 17.
The allegations of child abuse came
out during an investigation into claims that Nolan was touching his
patients in a sexual manner.
For the alleged incidents with
patients, Nolan was charged in Clark County Superior Court No. 3 with
four counts of class B misdemeanor battery. Four female patients, ages
16 through 36, reported to the Clarksville Police Department that Nolan
had touched their private areas or kissed them.
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