CLOVIS, N.M. (KVII) — An occupational therapist from Clovis is accused of sexually assaulting greater than three kids.
New Mexico Division of Justice Particular Brokers arrested Jared Cordum at his house in Clovis. He was booked into the Curry County Detention Middle.
Cordum allegedly sexually assaulted greater than three identified kids throughout what was imagined to be in-home occupational remedy appointments.
He’s charged with one depend of felony sexual penetration of a minor (baby beneath 13), 5 counts of felony sexual contact (baby beneath 13), 4 counts of practising and not using a license and one depend of battery.
The NMDOJ was requested to help the Clovis Police Division on Might 3 with an investigation of claims of potential sexual abuse. Dad and mom and guardians of a number of kids who had been “sufferers” of Cordum reported the alleged abuse to Clovis PD.
The allegations included studies from a college therapist at a neighborhood elementary college who was involved a couple of scholar because the kid’s foster mother or father defined the kid had an occupational therapist come to the house and “insert one thing into his rectum.”
Different studies from dad and mom and guardians illustrated comparable conduct by Cordum and stated the house visits had been “odd” and “uncomfortable.”
Referrals to Cordum had been made by native pediatricians and daycare facilities. One pediatrician stated they by no means acquired Cordum’s many evaluations and that they did not consider he needs to be conducting ultrasounds and electrode evaluation as he’s an occupational therapist.
A forensic skilled deemed Cordum’s practices in violation with the American Occupational Remedy Affiliation and that Cordum “violated the usual of look after occupational remedy” when he directed kids to take away their swim trunks throughout bathing/showering routines, administered enemas and suppositories to his sufferers and when he utilized imaging modalities to diagnose bowel points.
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