Chiropractor is guilty in assaults

An Anaheim chiropractor has been convicted of sexually assaulting four patients in his office who were referred to him for treatment by attorneys after car accident injuries, officials said Tuesday.

A jury found Chi Van Pham, 43, of Yorba Linda guilty of four felony counts of sexual battery by fraud and two misdemeanor counts of battery.

The jury hung on the charges related to a fifth victim who was 13 at the time of the molestation and sister to one of the four women whom Pham was convicted of assaulting, according to a district attorney’s office report. The women, whose were 13 to 23 at the time, were assaulted on several occasions from 2003 to 2005 under the pretense that Pham was performing routine chiropractic treatments.

Pham faces a maximum of seven years in state prison at his sentencing July 25.