Posted on 01/28/2022 7:46:07 PM PST by Morgana
The Missouri government board responsible for licensing doctors and other health care professionals is interested in criminal court matters related to Dr. David Smock, the longtime physician for Stockton-based Agape Boarding School.
But under Missouri law, the State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts can't say why.
Smock was recently charged with 11 felony sex crimes against children. Three of the charges originate from Greene County.
Eight of the charges were issued by Cedar County, the rural home of Agape's Independent Fundamental Baptist boarding school campus, as well as one of Smock's clinics.
Smock has pleaded not guilty to the Greene County charges. He has not yet entered a plea in the Cedar County charges, according to court records accessed Friday.
A week ago, the Healing Arts board sent the Cedar County courts a request for records in the Smock case, according to online docket entries in Missouri Case.net.
On the same date, Jan. 21, a records request pertaining to Greene County's case against Smock was also logged in the online court-record system. Unlike Cedar County, Greene County court officials did not specify the source of the Jan. 21 records request.
Craig Heidemann and Stacie Bilyeu, attorneys for Smock, did not immediately respond to Friday phone calls and emails from the News-Leader seeking comment on the records requests. A government spokesperson said it was impossible to comment on why the Healing Arts board asked for the court records.
"Complaints and investigations are closed under Missouri law," said Lori Croy with the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance, the umbrella agency that contains the Healing Arts board.
Croy confirmed in an email that she could not confirm or deny whether the Healing Arts board has opened an investigation or inquiry into Smock.
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