A gynecologist accused of taking photographs of his patients is facing three more charges of video voyeurism. 68 year old Dr. Paul Becton of Paragould appeared in Greene County Circuit Court yesterday. 2nd Judicial District Prosecutor Scott Ellington tells the Sun Newspaper the Arkansas State Police recently met with three additional victims and filed three additional affidavits Friday. The affidavits state the Arkansas State Police were contacted by Paragould police on April first after a patient went to the police. The woman told police that she went to the office for an exam. The woman claimed that Dr. Becton produced a cell phone and took pictures of her pubic region and her buttocks. The patient has filed a civil lawsuit against Becton alleging his actions caused her to have severe emotional distress. State police seized Becton’s phone, and allegedly found numerous images of nude females that they say “appeared to have been taken in a medical office during medical examinations”. Additional victims came forward May first, May 7th, and May 29th, all making similar claims. One of the victims is reportedly a juvenile. Becton has pleaded not guilty to the original charges. Ellington states that Dr. Becton is slated to appear October 31st for arraignment on the new charges. He is scheduled to appear for a plea hearing on December first and is slated to go to trial December 8th.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.