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
INLAND VALLEY
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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