This is odd. I was just reading the comments under the exciting article about the Portland Boy Scouts trial and saw this disturbing comment:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/portland_sex_abuse_verdict_lea/2382/comments-2.html
"what is going on!Dr Mark Metzger, orthopedic surgeon at Adventist Hospital, was just arrested for child sex abuse....what next!?" Post April 14th by "iwillbecause"
I knew nothing of this arrest so I started doing some checking. The Oregonian itself had nothing. The Oregonian is Oregon's premier news source. This is all I could find:
http://www.kptv.com/news/23129342/detail.html
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An orthopedic surgeon is facing a sex abuse charge.
Mark Metzger was arrested March 2 on suspicion of one count of sex abuse and was released the same day, Portland officers said.
Investigators are tight-lipped about the case, but said they don't believe the charge is related to the suspect's practice...."
Why tight-lipped? Why a 6 week embargo on a release of the information? An awful lot of people in Oregon respect this surgeon. I've heard his name off and on for years. What's going on?
I found this blog, with mug shot. Note, there's lots of comments and a good bit of language. The comments run up through today. A lot of circling of the wagons. Still nothing other than the single news report. Why?
http://www.thepotshot.com/2010/03/deferred-potshot.html
From a link in one of the comments:
https://techmedweb.omb.state.or.us/Clients/ORMB/Public/VerificationDetails.aspx?EntityID=1453065
Inactive license? I would have to agree, something's going on. There better be a pretty good explanation as to why this info has not be released!! A minor female and an agreement to withdraw from practice?
Here, we finally get to the meat of the matter:
https://techmedweb.omb.state.or.us/...ents/07a6cabb-82db-46e9-a6ff-2757b536b705.pdf
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/portland_sex_abuse_verdict_lea/2382/comments-2.html
"what is going on!Dr Mark Metzger, orthopedic surgeon at Adventist Hospital, was just arrested for child sex abuse....what next!?" Post April 14th by "iwillbecause"
I knew nothing of this arrest so I started doing some checking. The Oregonian itself had nothing. The Oregonian is Oregon's premier news source. This is all I could find:
http://www.kptv.com/news/23129342/detail.html
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An orthopedic surgeon is facing a sex abuse charge.
Mark Metzger was arrested March 2 on suspicion of one count of sex abuse and was released the same day, Portland officers said.
Investigators are tight-lipped about the case, but said they don't believe the charge is related to the suspect's practice...."
Why tight-lipped? Why a 6 week embargo on a release of the information? An awful lot of people in Oregon respect this surgeon. I've heard his name off and on for years. What's going on?
I found this blog, with mug shot. Note, there's lots of comments and a good bit of language. The comments run up through today. A lot of circling of the wagons. Still nothing other than the single news report. Why?
http://www.thepotshot.com/2010/03/deferred-potshot.html
From a link in one of the comments:
https://techmedweb.omb.state.or.us/Clients/ORMB/Public/VerificationDetails.aspx?EntityID=1453065
Inactive license? I would have to agree, something's going on. There better be a pretty good explanation as to why this info has not be released!! A minor female and an agreement to withdraw from practice?
Here, we finally get to the meat of the matter:
https://techmedweb.omb.state.or.us/...ents/07a6cabb-82db-46e9-a6ff-2757b536b705.pdf