| 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | " Dr" Ross is a monster who is still somehow a dentist, despite the fact that he has been charged numerous times with threatening his clients, family, little kids etc.
He also likes to bill for work he never done, defrauding poor people and insurance companies. |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Owen Sound dentist Ross Chiaramonte has pleaded guilty to threatening bodily harm to a young patient´ s mother and separately threatening the life of a member of his wife´ s family.
He received a conditional discharge, to be earned by undergoing counselling, staying away from the victims and by possessing no weapons during 18 months probation.
A Royal College of Dental Surgeons spokesman said this week he will be looking into the matter to determine whether a college investigation and discipline is warranted.
Being found guilty of a criminal offence like uttering threats may be grounds for a disciplinary panel to find a dentist has committed professional misconduct, registrar Irwin Fefergrad said.
Chiaramonte entered pleas of guilt on Oct. 25 in the Ontario Court of Justice to the two criminal counts of uttering threats. The Crown did not proceed with a criminal harassment charge.
Chiaramonte continues to practise dentistry in his 1st Ave. W. office but was away on a course Tuesday, office staff said.
Assistant Crown attorney Peter Leger declined to comment on the case. A transcript of the court proceeding could be ordered, he said.
The threat of bodily harm took place Nov. 28, 2009 at the Chatsworth Township home of a child patient of Chiaramonte´ s.
He came to their door, got into an argument with the mother and yelled, the mother of a boy and a girl wrote in her victim impact statement for the court.
It was filed as part of the public record at the courthouse. She did not respond to an interview request.
However, her statement says that since Chiaramonte attended her house, her four-year-old son now sleeps with a bedroom light on because " he was very scared of you."
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" Thankfully he didn´ t understand the argument, just that you kept yelling at me," she wrote.
The child´ s older sister was " crying a lot and seemed sad" after the " traumatic" encounter. Her teacher called home wondering why the girl was " withdrawn and having sudden outbursts of crying, and not completing class work." She was placed in counselling, at the suggestion of her doctor, the statement said.
" We had to help her create a ´ Ross evacuation plan´ so that she would know what to do in our home, our community and in a public place in Owen Sound."
Chiaramonte also uttered a death threat to a member of his wife´ s family who was visiting his wife´ s home near Kemble on Easter weekend this year.
The victim´ s impact statement to the court says Chiaramonte called the woman in a rage and said " You better watch yourself, you´ re gonna see what I am going to do to you . . . I´ m gonna kill you."
The confrontation ruined the holiday weekend, she wrote, which was spent " locked in the house with an OPP safety plan in place to ensure our security and safety would not be at risk."
On July 7, 2006 the College suspended Chiaramonte for eight months, ordered him to pay $50,000 and to complete a two-day ethics course. The maximum suspension allowed is one year. That decision followed his guilty pleas to 11 counts of professional misconduct, mostly for false and misleading billings to insurance companies worth $300,000 over four years, and also for being abusive and threatening toward a patient in 2003.
He was also placed under the mentorship of another dentist for three years after his suspension and was subject to College monitoring beginning March 7, 2007. The Nov. 28, 2009 uttering threat charge fell within that mentorship period. |