State suspends Wapato rape suspect’s chiropractor license | Crime and courts

A Yakima chiropractor has had his license to practice suspended as he is accused of raping a teenage girl.

The Ministry of Health issued a notice against Dr. Jorge Barrientos-Lopez, finding that the criminal charges against him pose “a serious threat to public health and safety.”

Barrientos-Lopez, a 43-year-old Wapato resident, was charged with third-degree child rape in Yakima County Superior Court in January.

In July 2023, the then-16-year-old girl, who was known to Barrientos-Lopez, told investigators that Barrientos-Lopez had raped her twice starting in January 2022, when she was about 14 or 15 years old, according to a suspected source. cause statement.

Barrientos-Lopez appeared in court in February following a summons, and Judge Jared Boswell released Barrientos-Lopez on his own recognizance and ordered him to have no contact with the girl or any child under 18.

The Yakima Herald-Republic does not publish the names of sexual assault victims without their consent.