“I will fight for a committee hearing on Indian Health Service issues.” Lawmakers are asking for answers after WSJ/Frontline investigation uncovers failure to stop pedophile doctor
Rear Adm. Michael Weahkee, the current head of the IHS, has been asked to brief lawmakers on the agency’s problems. Photo: Mike Shum/Frontline/WSJ 0 Comments By Christopher Weaver and Dan Frosch March 7, 2019 4:45 p.m. ET Lawmakers summoned the U.S. Indian Health Service’s leader to answer for the agency’s failure to stop a pediatrician from sexually abusing his child patients and a slate of longstanding problems with the quality of the agency’s care, according to a letter from the U.S.
The letter is the latest in a salvo of congressional inquiries since an investigation last month by The Wall Street Journal and the PBS series Frontline showed IHS had ignored warnings signs about the pedophile pediatrician for decades, transferred the problem doctor from one reservation to another, and tried to silence a whistleblower who accused him.
Sen. Steve Daines also wrote to Adm. Weahkee late last month inquiring about the agency’s handling of Stanley Patrick Weber, the pediatrician who sexually abused patients. He asked, among other things, how the agency would hold accountable people who “covered up or turned a blind eye to the repeated concerns raised by Mr. Weber’s behavior.”
Mr. Weber was convicted in September of sexually abusing two of his former patients as children in Montana. He is scheduled to stand trial for sexually assaulting four more later this year in South Dakota. Mr. Weber is appealing the Montana verdict. “It shouldn’t take an article from a journalist outside of the organization to force them to have an investigation in this matter,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin , who sits on the Energy and Commerce committee, said in an interview. “We have seen too many failure points with health care. Now we’re seeing abuse of patients.”
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