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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
A physician’s assistant from Roswell has been arrested and charged with felony sexual penetration.
Jon E. Perry, 52, is charged under a state law prohibiting medical professionals from engaging in sex with a patient during treatment or within a year after treatment ends, according to New Mexico State Police investigator Justin Tiemann.
The case against Perry developed when a patient of his, a Roosevelt County woman whose initials are R.F., consulted a Clovis attorney about incidents that happened during and after her treatment at a Roswell mental health facility.
The patient obtained legal service from Clovis attorney Tye Harmon. An investigator with the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s office had been contacted by a representative from Harmon’s office about incidents that had happened between R.F. and Perry.
During the investigation it was learned in mid-November 2019 the patient first met with Perry at the Roswell facility.
R.F. told the investigator that during one early visit Perry asked her to spin around and around in front of him and at one point touched her thigh.
Court records also show:
During her last appointment with Perry in January, 2020, Perry added her to his Facebook account and requested her cellphone number.
R.F. said Perry told her he loved her and wanted to run away with her.
R.F. told Tiemann visits with Perry were just conversations and no progress was being made on dealing with her mental health.
R.F. told Tiemann her husband told her to record the sessions with Perry.
R. F. told Tiemann that Perry and R.F. had sex in the back room of the shop where she worked in Portales in September 2020. She told the state police investigator three used condoms had been left behind in a trash can in the room.
The condoms were recovered in December 2020.
In April 2021 state police investigators acted on a DNA search warrant to swab Perry’s mouth to make a DNA comparison between Perry and the condoms from the alleged sexual encounter in Portales.
In February 2022 the results of the investigation into the matter of Perry and his patient were sent to the Ninth Judicial District Attorney’s office.
Perry was arrested July 1 and taken to the Roosevelt County Detention Center until Tuesday, when he was released on $1,500 bond.
Perry’s court appointed attorney has yet to be named.
Perry is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Thursday in Roosevelt Magistrate Court.
New Mexico Courts records also indicate a civil lawsuit has been filed against Perry and Eastern New Mexico Medical Center in Roswell. The plaintiff, Perry’s former patient R.F., is being represented by Harmon of Clovis.
