An obstetrician-gynecologist formerly employed by UCLA was taken into custody today in a Los Angeles courtroom on a 21-count indictment accusing him of sexually assaulting patients.
By City News Service
May 24, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - An obstetrician-gynecologist formerly employed by UCLA was taken into custody today in a Los Angeles courtroom on a 21-count indictment accusing him of sexually assaulting patients.
The indictment was handed down by a grand jury last Thursday and announced on the day a preliminary hearing for Dr. Jeames Mason Heaps was scheduled to begin.
Heaps, 64, of Woodland Hills, who had been free on band, was taken into custody on bail of $1.19 million, according to attorneys who represent hundreds of victims in a civil case against Heaps and UCLA.
A pretrial hearing was scheduled for June 3, and the case was moved to a downtown courtroom, a spokeswoman for the courts confirmed.
Former UCLA gynecologist Dr. James Mason Heaps was taken into custody Monday in a Los Angeles courtroom on a 21-count indictment accusing him of sexually assaulting patients.
Ex-UCLA gynecologist James Heaps indicted on 21 sex abuse counts and held on $1.19 million bail
May 25, 2021 / 6:07 AM / CBS/AP
A grand jury indicted a former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles on 21 counts of sexual abuse offenses Monday in a case in which he s accused of sexually assaulting seven women, court documents say. Dr. James Heaps, 64, faces multiple counts each of sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation of a patient and sexual penetration of an unconscious person by fraudulent representation, according to a copy of the indictment unsealed Monday. The indictment includes offenses that allegedly took place between 2009 and 2018. No new victims were listed in the court documents. He had previously faced 20 counts.