ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former New Mexico prison doctor accused of sexual assaulting inmates during exams is the subject of another lawsuit, bringing the number of litigation cases against him to 15.
A Guadalupe County Correctional Facility inmate who alleges Dr. Mark Walden fondled him filed a lawsuit in federal court last month. Nearly 80 inmates from two state prisons say Walden victimized them or failed to give adequate medical care.
The inmate in the latest case said he didn't come forward sooner because he was embarrassed and was afraid of possible retaliation.
Walden's attorney said in an answer filed in one of the civil cases that Walden denies sexually abusing inmates, and that his conduct was at no time unreasonable, cruel or harmful.