As of April 8, 2002 Dr. Jay Harold Tibbles, of Fontana, California convicted of six feloney counts of unlawful attempt to commit lewd acts with a child and five felony counts of unlawful attempt to send harmful matter to a child under 14 years of age with intent to seduce the child. License revoked. Effective, April 8.
Originally Posted at: http://www.latimes.com/tcn/ontario/news/front/la-iv0019285dec22.story
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Pediatrician is sentenced in sex case Jay Tibbles, who worked at a Fontana hospital for 21 years, will lose his license and must register as a sex offender. By Douglas Haberman / doug.haberman@latimes.com and Gene Maddaus / gene.madaus.@latimes.com
December 22 2001
A pediatrician who admitted trying to send pornography to a child and to commit "lewd and lascivious" acts with a child was stripped of his medical license Friday and sentenced to 65 days in San Bernardino County jail and three years' felony probation.
Jay Harold Tibbles, 58, of Devore Heights also has to register as a sex offender, Deputy Dist. Atty. Laura Robles said.
Sheriff's deputies snared Tibbles, who practiced at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, in an Internet sting. They arrested him on Nov. 19, 2000, after officers went online posing as a mother of a 12-year-old girl seeking someone to train her daughter as a sex slave. He was on his way to a rendezvous in San Bernardino with the fictitious girl. Five times Tibbles sent pornographic material over the Internet to the deputies, believing it was going to the girl, prosecutors said.
Tibbles was the founder of the American Druidic Church in Southern California. After his arrest, he resigned from the pagan organization.
He pleaded guilty in October to an 11-count complaint, the same week he was set for trial.
Under the sentence handed down by San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Ronald Christianson, Tibbles cannot be in the presence of children without adult supervision nor can he go online without adult supervision, Robles said.
Tibbles had practiced medicine at the Fontana hospital for 21 years. No patients ever complained of sexual wrongdoing, officials said. His attorney, Virginia Blumenthal of Riverside, has said he was a forensic pediatrician, meaning he examined children for evidence of molestation.
The medical group that pays him will review his job status in light of the sentencing, spokeswoman Jennifer Resch-Silvestri said. He remains on unpaid administrative leave, she said.
Three years from now Tibbles could petition the California Medical Board for reinstatement of his medical license, spokeswoman Candis Cohen said. He would have to plead his case before the board's Division of Medical Quality and would need "to show remediation of the problems that led to the loss of his license," she said.
Tibbles' attorney, Blumenthal, didn't return calls for comment.
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