Ex Dentist gets probation

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A former dentist accused of using syringes to squirt his semen into the mouths of female patients was sentenced to probation on seven assault charges Wednesday though he refused to say he was guilty.

John Hall entered the Alford plea "? under which a defendant acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction without admitting wrongdoing "? at a hearing before Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin. He was charged with seven counts of misdemeanor assault on a female.

Ervin placed Hall, 44, on probation for five years, telling the alleged victims he chose that over a maximum 120-day prison sentence in the hope that Hall's activities would be monitored and similar acts prevented.

"I don't feel I can do justice," Ervin told the women who attended Wednesday's court hearing.

Under the probation sentence, Hall is to spend three months on house arrest and perform 120 hours of community service.

Hall, who practiced in nearby Cornelius, was charged with assaulting six patients, including one of them twice, over an eight-month period in 2003.

The state Board of Dental Examiners revoked Hall's license in August after the six former patients said he made them swallow what they now believe was his semen.

In testimony before the board, Hall denied the allegations.

"I have never injected semen in any patient's mouth," he said. "I never would. I've got a 10-year-old daughter. That whole concept is so beyond me."

Police searched Hall's office and confiscated syringes after several employees said they were suspicious of the dentist's behavior. DNA tests on the syringes later showed they contained Hall's semen.

thats gross!

It's worse than gross

heck yea! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

36 hours in the electric chair sounds like a fair punishment to me. Probation sure doesn't seem right.

Some people are just sick. That is worse than just gross. I say do the same to him and see how he likes it. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

I bet everyone that went to him are wondering if he did the same to them. He will probably move and try to do it somewhere else, people like him are sick in the head and unless some dramatic change in them they will repeat it again. What in the world was his purpose in doing this? What was he thinking? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

People who do crimes like these then get probation? A slap on the wrist.
If anything this should be a sex offender crime. His name should go on the list. That way he can be tracked in some ways, and if he opens a practice licensed or not, he can be located easier or tracked.
I don't get it though. The common person would of gotten time over this kind of incident.
The Utility worker got hit harder than this guy did. And he admitted to his crime. Yet this man says he didn't do it and yet DNA in the syringes says he did.
They had to get something out of those syringes right?

There is no way this perspn should ever be allowed to open another practice. The "punishment" here definately did not fit the crime.

What the hell is wrong with that man's mind to do something like that?