A 68-year-old doctor, who worked at Smyth County Community Hospital and allegedly had a sexual relationship with an underage female coworker that included exchanging explicit imagines with the victim, was ar-rested last week by the FBI.
Michael Kevin Patrick, of Sugar Grove, Va., was charged via federal criminal com-plaint with receipt of child sexual abuse ma-terial (CSAM).
A criminal complaint is merely an accusa-tion. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
According to court documents, Juvenile Victim 1 (JV1) began working at Smyth
County Community Hospital in December 2023, when she was 16 years old. Shortly af-ter starting her job, JV1 met Patrick in an el-evator. JV1 told Patrick she was 17 years old, in high school, and interested in the medi-cal field. The two began talking regularly at work.
In late 2024, JV1 and Patrick started eat-ing lunch together and communicating reg-ularly via text messages and phone calls. Eventually, Patrick and JV1 engaged in sex-ual conversations with one another and ex-changed nude pictures of themselves via text message.
In addition, Patrick started having a physical relationship with JV1 at his home and at work. During that span of time, JV1 was 16 years old. Patrick told JV1 that he was “looking forward to” her birthday, that the relationship had to be “secret,” and that he “needed” her. After JV1 turned 17, and after Patrick believed JV1 had turned 18, Patrick had sexual intercourse with JV1.
Patrick and JV1 exchanged more than 19,000 text messages with one another. After Patrick’s activities were discovered, he de-leted his text messages with JV1.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Marion Po-lice Department.
