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March 2021

Judge Orders Release Under FOIA of Report on Sexual Abuse of Children at Federal Health Agency

Indian Health Service Commissioned Review After Doctor’s Decades-Long Abuses

By Matthew E. Kelley
In consolidated cases brought by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, a federal magistrate judge has ordered the federal government to make public a contractor’s report about mismanagement at the Indian Health Service that allowed a doctor to sexually abuse children for more than two decades.