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Robert Kevess, a physician who worked for more than 20 years in the student health center at the University of California at Berkeley, was charged Thursday with eight counts of sexual exploitation of a patient, seven counts of sexual battery involving false professional purpose and four counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. All of the allegations involve male patients who were students at the time Kevess treated them. Robert Beles, Kevess's lawyer, said that his client had been "grossly overcharged." He said that some of the incidents were activities between consenting adults. But Beles also said that Kevess may have had a "lapse of professional judgment." Berkeley officials issued statements expressing shock about the charges, pledging continued cooperation with authorities and offering support to any students concerned about the situation.
