A woman told USA Today that nearly a year ago, she walked into the OBGYN's office in Fort Hood, an army base in Texas, because she wasn't sure what to take for a sinus infection during her pregnancy.

She said that the doctor, Major Blaine McGrath, then sexually abused her.

She said that when she told him to stop, he laughed. Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Tuesday, November 25, 2025. The woman is one of more than 1,400 patients of Major McRaw, who the Army says it has contacted

in a snowballing investigation alleging sexual exploitation.

For more on this disturbing story, I'm now joined by USA Today, National Security Reporter,

Sibel Mays Osterman.

Sabelle, thank you so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me.

Let's start with the broad strokes here.

What are the main allegations?

Yeah, so this Army Dr. Major Blaine McGrath, who has had a practice as an OBGYN on Fort Hood

and Texas for several years now, he's been accused in a lawsuit of sexually exploiting,

manipulating his female patients and recording them secretly without their permission. And this

lawsuit is also alleging that the army essentially allowed McGrath's conduct for years to

continue, even though it had heard about complaints

about what he was doing. The woman who filed the lawsuit, she said that Army investigators

showed her pictures that she realized were from the appointment that she had had with McRae

days earlier, and they were from her pelvic exam that he administered

to her at that time. She told me that over the course of her seeing McGraw, she had had

bizarre experiences with him. He would sometimes call her up after hours and have long conversations that feared out of what

doctors and patients would normally be talking about, that he sometimes made off-color comments

to her, like complimenting her on her body during a breast exam. And now she is the plaintiff

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