Association of Health Care Journalists: Chicago Tribune Team Exposes How the System Fails to Protect Patients From Sex Abusers
March 26, 2024
March 26, 2024
COLUMBIA, Missouri, March 26 -- The Association of Health Care Journalists issued the following news:
When Chicago-area obstetrician-gynecologist Fabio Ortega pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two patients as they lay on his exam table, a reporter covering the case wondered how his abuse within a prominent health system was allowed to drag on.
"One of the things that struck me was that some of the women alleged (in lawsuits that) he assaulted them after the health . . .
When Chicago-area obstetrician-gynecologist Fabio Ortega pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two patients as they lay on his exam table, a reporter covering the case wondered how his abuse within a prominent health system was allowed to drag on.
"One of the things that struck me was that some of the women alleged (in lawsuits that) he assaulted them after the health . . .