Petaluma Man Sentenced For Sexual Batteries On Chiropractic Patients

June 22, 2022 SONOMA COUNTY, CA — Defendant Darius Bunyad, 41 years old of Petaluma, was sentenced Monday, June 21, by the Honorable Dana Simonds to serve ten years in state prison (the maximum eligible sentence under the law) after being found guilty by a jury in 2017 of committing six counts of felony sexual battery by fraud, and multiple additional misdemeanor offenses.The charges resulted from crimes that occurred between 2012 and 2015 when Bunyad owned and operated a sports medicine practice in Santa Rosa. During “treatments,” Bunyad improperly touched his victims’ breasts and other parts of their bodies, all while under the guise that it was for the purposes of legitimate chiropractic treatment. The convictions covered crimes against eight separate female chiropractic patients, five of whom were minors at the time, the youngest being fifteen years old. Some of the victims…

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