The suspect has medical licenses from Missouri, California and Arizona, operates 24/7 clinic and helps the homeless.
In the US state of Missouri, a doctor at the private Christian boarding school Agape was charged with sex crimes against children.
Friday, December 24, reported by The Associated Press.
It is noted that 57-year-old David Earl Smoke was accused of second-degree sodomy, third-degree corruption of a child under the age of 14, and of seducing or attempting to seduce a child under the age of 15.
As of Friday the suspect is not in custody. According to preliminary reports, he is wanted.
Smoke was a longtime physician at Agape, a program for about 150 boys with “bad behavior or poor academic performance.” School attendance costs $ 48,000 a year.
According to the Daily Mail, he also runs a 24-hour clinic in Cedar County and helps the homeless in Springfield. The doctor holds medical licenses in Missouri, California and Arizona, and one of his sons is married to the granddaughter of the late founder of Agape.
He owns an 11-bedroom mansion that is used as another Legacy Academy Adventures boarding school
Agape has been under public scrutiny since September, when five employees, including Smoke's son-in-law, were charged with assaulting students.
This happened after 16 of men who had previously attended school described to The Star reporters the years of physical abuse, abuse, manipulation and cruel punishment, in particular the denial of food and water.
After that, dozens of former students of the school began to talk about their experiences, and more 1.2 thousand people signed a petition to close the institution.
Victims pointed out that violence was most often committed in a soft room, where employees beat and pushed students for misconduct.
