LAKE MARY, Fla. — A Lake Mary doctor who has already been stripped of his license over accusations of inappropriately touching patients, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of sexual battery, police said.
Dr. William Dalton, 87, is accused of sexually assaulting the same female patient multiple times.
That victim, who asked only to be identified as K.G., told Channel 9 that she has lupus and Dalton was assigned as her doctor by Medicaid.
"My first time going, he put his hand right here, like he was telling me something, and he just slid down like this, and I'm, like, something wasn't right," she said. "Every time I went, he just consistently kept doing all types of stuff to me."
Before his arrest, but after his license was suspended, Dalton spoke to Channel 9, denying he did anything wrong.
“I didn’t do anything,” Dalton said, adding that he touches "a lot of patients" but not inappropriately.
Watch: Reporter Len Kiese asks Dalton about the allegations
After K.G. told the Department of Health he inappropriately touched her on close to a dozen office visits, an emergency suspension of his license was issued.
"I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying I think she's overexcited,” Dalton said of the accuser.
On one visit to refill meds, K.G. said Dalton pulled up her shirt and bra, and began touching and kissing her breasts.
She accuses him of crossing the line during several other visits between June of 2016 and April 2017.
The final straw was in April when, among other things, K.G. said Dalton exposed himself to her
"He done went too far, you know? Too far," she said.
K.G. filed a police report in May and an investigator then interviewed Dalton.
Documents stated he smiled and said, “I may have touched her breasts. They are my biggest attraction."
The order also states Dalton told the investigator, "I just did it for the enjoyment of it."
Dalton denied saying that to the investigator.
"I touch breasts only because there's something that needs to be examined,” he said.
The state deemed Dalton was an "immediate, serious danger to the public health, safety or welfare."
He turned himself in to the John E. Polk Correctional Facility in Sanford Wednesday on the sexual battery charge.
Investigators said more alleged victims have come forward but did not say how many.
Larry Gonzalez is representing K.G. and another woman who says she was a victim in a planned civil lawsuit.
"I think that the doctor-patient relationship is one of the most privileged relationships we have in our society," Gonzalez said. "And we believe he abused that privilege in the worst possible way."