An Emporia chiropractor who had his license suspended last month by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts has been arrested and charged with sexual crimes.
A complaint filed by Lyon County Assistant Attorney Amy Aranda on Thursday morning charges Eric Hawkins with one felony count of aggravated sexual battery stemming from mid-February 2018 against a 22-year-old victim. He also faces one misdemeanor count of sexual battery or in the alternative, a misdemeanor count of battery from an incident in early March 2015 involving a then-32-year-old victim. The affidavit in the case has been sealed. An attachment of the complaint can be found at the bottom of this page.
Hawkins will make his first court appearance at 12:45 p.m. Sept. 13.
The Kansas Board of Healing Arts suspended his chiropractic license July 27 following an emergency hearing. That complaint alleged evidence that Hawkins without warning allegedly reached under the patient’s pants and initiated unwanted skin to skin touching and massaging of the patient’s buttocks and inner thigh area and moving aside her undergarments without appropriate consent. It also details there is evidence that Hawkins embraced the patient without invitation while she was on the treatment table and again after she stood up to leave the treatment room.
His license remains on emergency suspension.
A graduate of Parker College of Chiropractic in 1997, Hawkins had his original Kansas license issued in April 2006. His license was set to expire this upcoming January. Hawkins had volunteered to serve on a Board of Healing Arts medical malpractice screening panel as of 2015, according to Board of Healing Arts online records.
Hawkins’ home and office are both listed for sale and, according to Lyon County records, are owned by the Hawkins Family Revocable Trust.
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