The lawsuit was filed Wednesday, Aug. 25, by Mason attorney Konrad Kircher on behalf of a 23-year-old man — who is not identified in the suit.
The man is one of the victims Scott Blankenburg, who practiced in Fairfield, admitted to molesting in last year’s criminal case. The complaint is asking for a jury trial and damages in excess of $25,000.
Last year, a similar suit was filed by Gary “Pat” Marchetti against Mark Blankenburg accusing the doctor of breaking a promise to care for him financially in exchange for his silence about being sexually abused as a teenager. Kircher also filed that lawsuit, which is pending before Butler County Common Pleas Judge Michael Sage.
The 23-year-old man says as a child he was a patient of the Blankenburgs and that the twins sponsored numerous sports teams on which he played. In about the eighth or ninth grade, Scott Blankenburg began providing the plaintiff with cigarettes, cigars, alcohol, money and transportation, according to the lawsuit. He said Scott Blankenburg sexually molested him, which continued with the doctor promising to take care of him if he told no one about the abuse, according to the lawsuit. The man also says Mark Blankenburg molested him on occasion and provided drugs.
“Scott Blankenburg repeatedly represented to the plaintiff words to the effect of ‘if you don’t turn me in I will take care of you,” the lawsuit claims, noting Scott Blankenburg promised to leave houses to the plaintiff in his last will and testament and share his retirement account with him. The Blankenburgs also agreed to pay his living expenses in exchange for not reporting the abuse, according to the suit.
“The plaintiff met his obligations under the agreement until defendants breached the agreement by failing to pay,” the lawsuit alleges.
Mark Blankenburg, 54, was found guilty of molesting three former patients, but not Marchetti because the statue of limitations had run out. Scott Blankenburg, pleaded guilty to similar crimes.
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