semissourian.com on May 19, 2011 reported that a former Poplar Bluff doctor was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching a female patient. Dr. Martin McDonald, 52, pleaded guilty to felony sexual abuse before Presiding Circuit Judge Michael Pritchett, according to Dunklin County Prosecuting Attorney Steve Sokoloff, who was appointed special prosecutor for the case. After McDonald waived having a sentencing assessment report done by Probation and Parole, Pritchett sentenced McDonald to five years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, Sokoloff said.

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