An intake officer at the White City VA Rehabilitation Center & Clinics is accused of first-degree official misconduct and coercion after a patient reported sexual encounters with the officer, according to court records.

The patient was undergoing residential treatment from August through early September and told investigators that Casey Dean Atkinson, 58, of Eagle Point, had sexual contact with him four times while Atkinson worked in the rehab center as a medical support assistant, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Atkinson was the first person that patients met upon their arrival to the center, the affidavit said.

When confronted by Jackson County sheriff’s deputies, Atkinson initially denied any sexual contact with the patient but then said it was “possible” that the two had ki

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