A chiropractor from McKinney, Texas turned himself into police authorities earlier this month for an alleged sexual assault of a child, a first-degree felony charge. Dr. David Russell already had 4 sexual harassment charges against him, all filed within recent months. There had been 2 counts of sexual harassment of minors and 2 of sexual harassment of adults.
The Collin County Sheriff’s Office issued a warrant Tuesday, March 19, because the fifth alleged victim, a child whose name remains anonymous to the press, had come forward to complain about Dr. Russell’s behavior. She said that Russell had been inappropriate with her while she was getting treated at his chiropractic office.
Russell was released on a $50K bond, just as he had with the 4 previous sexual harassment charges. His lawyer Toss Shapiro indicated to local reporters that Dr. Russell will be pleading innocent on all 5 counts. Apparently the two men want to bring the cases to Collin County District Court.
The Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners suspended Russell’s practicing license months ago, upon the first sexual harassment allegations in October of last year. At the time, he was released from jail on a $100K bond. Second set of sexual harassment allegations came the next month, in November, after which he was released for a second time on the same bond sentence. Russell has since sold his McKinney-based practice, Russell Chiropractic. It is now called Elite Performance Chiropractic.
Less than a week following the second sexual harassment charge, two adult females who knew Russell came forward with reports that the doctor had violated them, as well. Russell’s third arrest came with a $25K bail for each count. The bail was less for sexual harassment charges associated with an adult victim, primarily because the crime would be considered a second-degree felony as opposed to the first-degree felony. District Judge John Roach, Jr. later upped each bail to $100K each and required Russell to hand over his passport and stay within Collin County until he was given official permission to travel elsewhere. Russell was also prohibited from coming in contact with either of the adult victims or any minors whatsoever. Now, Russell has gotten off on bail 5 times. His charges have not been evaluated by a grand jury.
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