#341: Stopping a Pedophile Pediatrician: Child Sex Abuse at Indian Health Service Hospitals

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Just over a month ago, a scathing report was released confirming that top health officials knew for years about a pedophile pediatrician sexually abusing Native American boys at at least two Indian Heath Service hospitals. Though many of his co workers reported their fears about him to their superiors, Stanley Patrick Weber was allowed to practice for almost 20 years, abusing untold numbers of young indigenous boys — some as young as eight years old — before his conviction in 2020. One witness who was finally called to testify in the trial, Nurse David Marsh, is our guest today. David talks to us about what it was like at the dysfunctional Pine Ridge Hospital in South Dakota with Weber. This IHS hospital which is supposed to serve the tribal community, may still be harboring other predators who are still practicing today.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:10.0	Psychologist Dan Foster and his wife Becky, a mental health specialist, knew some of Dr. Weber's patients.
0:17.0	They became increasingly uncomfortable with his after-hours clinic.
0:22.0	Normally, if you bring your child to a pediatrician, a parent is with them. Or if a social worker brings a child to a pediatrician, the social worker is with them.
0:33.0	An adult is with them, but these boys were going in there alone.
0:40.0	It was pre-pubescent, adolescent males. Most of them teenagers, 12 to 15 years old, all of them vulnerable, high-risk, many of whom we already had suspicions that they'd been sexually involved.
0:51.0	They'd been sexually molested or abused. And so that was a red flag.
0:57.0	Then later one of our colleagues came and told me he had real concerns regarding this doctor's bringing a couch into his office, and that he was keeping young males in there after hours when most of the staff had gone home.
1:27.0	Music.
1:34.0	He took the kids to a great fall shop and he took them to basketball tournaments when our kids would qualify.
1:41.0	To us, that was getting the community used to seeing him with these kids and the implication of parental permission.
1:48.0	This is grooming behavior. So you take kids who are high-risk, who are from difficult family circumstances, and who are poor.
1:59.0	And you offer them new clothes and you offer food and you offer them a home where the lights are on all the time, or child will gravitate or that.
2:11.0	Music.
2:16.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler former New York City prosecutor and writer producer of CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me today is...
2:25.0	I am Lisa Zambetti. I was the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds and I have a real interest in real crime and these brilliant minds that solve these crimes.
2:34.0	And also the civilians who try and try to stop crimes that are happening right in front of their own eyes. And so I propose that and we have a very special guest with us today.
2:47.0	Hi, I'm David Marsh. I've been in healthcare for 20 some years. I've been a nurse for about 18 of those and I was a nurse on the Indian reservation in Pine Ridge South Dakota.
2:57.0	And Laura, of course, wishes she could be here, but she has taken care of her wonderful baby boy, Rafi. And of course she wishes she could be here to talk to you about this incredibly important subject, but she will be back soon.
3:12.0	Yeah, we miss her so much and we can't wait for her to come back and help us with these incredible cases.
3:19.0	So we're going to talk to you about a case today that you are not going to believe. It involves a pediatrician who used his position to sexually abuse untold numbers of young male victims on several Indian reservations, including the Pine Ridge reservation where this IHS hospital was where David worked.
3:41.0	What's IHS Indian Navy service?
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