"Predator in uniform": the biggest sex scandal in the history of the US military - Gynecologist secretly recorded his patients' exams, up to 3,000 victims - ProtoThema English

In the "shadow" of the judicial investigation, Dr. Blaine McGraw was removed from his position as a gynecologist at Fort Hood - The lawsuit against him alleges that the military authorities knew and covered up for him - Shocking testimonies

The war veteran, a former Marine in Afghanistan, was used to observing everything around him to stay alive. So he watched intently last month as an obstetrician in the army examined his pregnant wife, an Army officer, in Fort Hood, Texas.

When the doctor bent down to change the position of the ultrasound machine, something caught the veteran's attention: the doctor's cell phone was now in his shirt pocket, with the camera lens pointed outward. It wasn't there before. When the veteran looked at the screen, he saw that the phone was recording.

When the examination was complete, the veteran found two female members of the medical staff and told them what happened, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation. Their reactions frustrated him so much that he "exploded" right there in the middle of the hallway. "I just caught a doctor recording my wife's vagina!" he shouted, according to the same source.

That "explosion" led to a sequence of events, allegations, and revelations that brought to light what could be one of the largest cases of alleged sexual abuse in the history of the U.S. military.

Dr. Blaine McGraw and the allegations

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Last month, Army officials in Texas removed from his position Dr. Blaine McGraw, an Army major and gynecologist at Fort Hood, who is now accused of repeatedly assaulting a female patient and secretly recording her private moments during a recent gynecological and mammological exam.

The plaintiff, known by the common "Jane Doe" used when a witness's details are not made public, had visited McGraw a few days before the veteran accompanied his wife to Fort Hood Hospital.

Army investigators recovered thousands of photos and videos from McGraw's cellphone that "were taken over the course