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Disgraced doctor Christopher Davis, 63, faces charges of 92 charges for crimes against at least four of his female patients between 2021 and 2024
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Davis would withhold methadone treatment from drug-addicted women unless they performed sex acts or send nude photos, according to Pennsylvania’s Attorney General
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He lost his license for two years in 2002 after allegedly stealing pain medication and using a dead woman’s body as a puppet after pronouncing her dead, manipulating her jaw as though she was talking and telling nurses “Hi, how are you?”, per documents obtained by Penn Live, WGAL and Fox 43.
To his patients, he presented himself as a lifeline offering methadone in their fight against addiction. But behind closed doors, prosecutors say, the central Pennsylvania doctor weaponized that trust, coercing vulnerable women into sex by threatening to withhold the medication they relied on to stay clean.
Christopher J. Davis, 63, solicited sexual acts and nude photos from his patients in exchange for his continued authorization of their methadone prescriptions, according to the state’s Office of the Attorney General.
The physician faces 92 charges for alleged crimes against at least four of his patients between 2021 and 2024.
His charges include rape by force, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, sexual extortion, illegal use of a communications device, illegal administration of a controlled substance and furnishing false or fraudulent information, according the attorney general’s press release.
The women were his patients at the Pyramid Healthcare York Treatment Center, where Davis was medical director, and at his private practice specializing in addiction care in York.
One patient told a grand jury last month that Davis kissed her in his office, shoving his tongue down her throat, according an affidavit of probable cause obtained by PEOPLE.
“The broken ones are the easiest,” he allegedly said, per the affidavit.
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After the woman fled, Davis allegedly found her number in his medical records and messaged her several times per day asking for nude photos, per the affidavit.
Several victims claimed that Davis would “withhold, or threaten to withhold, treatment benefits from patients who refused his sexual advances, while conversely, prescribing contraindicated addictive medications who acquiesced to his demands,” per the affidavit.
The doctor allegedly encouraged the woman to drink alcohol and abuse medications, prosecutors said. One said he gave her money to purchase and use fentanyl; another claimed he prescribed her benzodiazepines to her at his private practice while she was receiving methadone treatment at Pyramid, his other place of work.
The recent charges, filed on April 20, aren’t the first accusations of wrongdoing Davis faced in his medical career.
In 2000, the doctor was disciplined after using a dead woman’s body like a puppet, according to Pennsylvania Department of State documents obtained by Penn Live, WGAL and Fox 43.
“[Davis] checked the Patient’s heart and lungs and pronounced her deceased,” the Pennsylvania Department of State said, per the documents. “[Davis] informed the Nurses that he had been a ventriloquist. [Davis] then proceeded to place the deceased Patient’s body in a seated position, put his hand on her bottom jaw, and, while manipulating the Patient’s jaw up and down to create the affectation that the deceased Patient was talking, [Davis] said, ‘Hi there, how are you?’ or words to that effect.”
According to online court records, Davis is being held at York County Prison on $1 million bail and has a preliminary court hearing scheduled for May 28.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
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