Valencia Physician to Face Four New Murder Charges

Four additional murder charges will be filed against a Valencia physician already facing five murder counts in the deaths of babies who allegedly received negligent medical attention, county prosecutors have announced.

Dr. Milos Klvana, 47, is accused by the district attorney’s office of incompetently caring for eight babies and one full-term fetus. The babies, who were delivered at their mothers’ homes or at Klvana’s offices in Valencia and Temple City, died shortly after birth.

In all nine cases, prosecutors allege, the pregnancies were high-risk cases and the infants should have been transported to hospitals where emergency care was available.

The deaths occurred between December, 1982, and September, 1986, according to Deputy Dist. Atty. Brian R. Kelberg.

New Counts to Be Filed

Klvana is currently charged with second-degree murder in five of the cases. The district attorney’s office announced Thursday that four additional counts of second-degree murder will be filed this week at the start of Klvana’s preliminary hearing in Los Angeles Municipal Court.

Accused with Klvana in three of the deaths is his unlicensed assistant, Delores Doyle, 35.

In addition to the murder counts, Klvana will be prosecuted on 34 other felonies, including insurance fraud, conspiracy, perjury and aiding an unlicensed assistant in the practice of medicine, Kelberg said. Thirty of those additional charges have been filed and the others will be submitted to the court Wednesday, Kelberg said.

Doyle will face 30 charges, including three counts of second-degree murder, he said.

At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, which is expected to take four months, Judge James F. Nelson will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to hold the two for trial in Superior Court.

Klvana and Doyle were arrested Oct. 31 after a two-year investigation by the Sheriff’s Department, district attorney, state attorney general and the state Board of Medical Quality Assurance.