(Worthington, Mn.)– A Worthington chiropractor faces criminal charges after authorities say he admitted having sexual contact with a 12-year-old patient on several occasions.
53-year-old Lonnie Roger Haken has been charged in Nobles County District Court with the felonies of first, second, third and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct.
A criminal complaint says the girl told her mother on June 25th that Haken had sexually assaulted her while she was under his care, and the mother contacted police.
Haken had been treating the girl twice a week for more than two years.
When Haken was first interviewed June 30th, he denied the charges and suggested the girl made up the story. But authorities say on July 10th, Haken admitted kissing her breast once and touching the child on three separate occasions while they were at his house in Worthington, where some of the girl’s treatment took place.
Authorities are not aware of any other inappropriate conduct between Haken and other patients.
(Story from the Associated Press.).
