Barto’s alleged victims included both boys and girls, many of whom were aged between 8 and 12 years old. Some were allegedly as young as a few weeks or months old.
In 2016, Barto allegedly sexually assaulted a 2-week-old girl during a wellness check while both her parents were in the room.
Barto allegedly removed the infant’s diaper on the examination table and inserted his finger into her vagina, causing her to cry out in pain, her mother later told authorities. When the baby’s father became upset, Barto said, “This is routine. I need to do this to make sure everything is OK,” according to the
criminal complaint. Her mother told authorities that Barto also conducted another vaginal exam during a subsequent visit when her daughter was about 6 months old.
Another girl was 21 months old when Barto allegedly inserted his fingers in her genitals on seven separate office visits in “medically inappropriate ways,” prosecutors said.
In 2017, Barto asked a 12-year-old boy’s mother to step out of exam room while he conducted a genital exam of her son who showed flu symptoms, according to the complaint. The mother stepped out, but returned to question Barto about the need to examine her son’s genitals for a flu complaint.
When she returned, she saw Barto fondling her son’s testicles while his face was close to them, she later told authorities. She also said that her son was lying supine on the exam table with his genitals exposed. When she confronted Barto, he left the room without an explanation, according to the complaint.
Prosecutors said that most of the alleged assaults took place in an exam room at Laurel Pediatric Associates of Cambria County and others took place in local hospitals in Cambria County.
