February 5, 1990: A woman makes an early morning call – like 12.30am early – on Pittsburgh dentist Clinton Runco. They are both married, though not to each other, and she is in fact the wife of a close friend of the good doctor, although one doubts that friendship survived this incident.
The two had sex – she said it was rape; he said it was consensual. Although the case was dropped, ostensibly for medical reasons, the woman had psychiatric problems and had made a false rape allegation before.
This article appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 6, 1990, page 5. One would have expected some sort of disciplinary action (not to mention divorce proceedings!) to be taken against Runco for what was clearly unprofessional behaviour, but twenty and more years on he was still practising.
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