Newberg Urgent Care Doctor Arrested on Sex Abuse Charges

The allegations to not involve patients, but detectives want to be sure.

Dr. Lawrence Ronald Litwer Photo: Washington County Sheriff

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - An Urgent Care Physician was booked on sex abuse charges yesterday after he turned himself into the Washington County Jail. Detectives said that the charges are not related to the hospital, but they are concerned there could be additional victims.

Sgt Dave Thompson with the Washington County Sheriff's Office, says on Friday, April 17, 2009, Dr. Lawrence Ronald Litwer turned himself in to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office after he was indicted by a Grand Jury on numerous charges of sex abuse.

"Dr. Litwer works at the Newberg Urgent Care Clinic, but the charges do not stem from that location," Thompson said.

"Dr. Litwer has been accused of sexually touching a teenage girl during the time she was 14 to 16 yeas old. The girl was not a patient of Dr. Litwer."

Thompson says that although the case does not involve a patient, detectives are still concerned that Dr. Litwer could have victimized other girls in the course of his medical activities.

Dr. Litwer has been charged with nine counts of first-degree Sex Abuse and three counts of third-degree Sex Abuse. He is being held on two million two hundred sixty five thousand dollars bail.

Sheriff’s Detectives are asking that anyone who believes they may have been victimized by Dr. Litwer to call the Washington County Sheriff’s Office at 503-846-2500.

Always in the case of all sex abuse allegations, it is important to note that the individual has only at this point, been arrested and charged

Dr. Lawrence Ronald Litwer has not been convicted. Until a presumptive finding of guilt, he is only a suspect. Salem-News.com has carried stories of this nature that ultimately led to an acquittal or finding of not guilty.