An Oklahoma dental assistant is accused of filming and sharing a video of him sexually assaulting 16 patients, six of whom were minors, while they were sedated for surgeries, police said. It was done.
Cody Allen Stolfa, 35, is suspected of committing the horrific crime in 2021 while working at Central Oklahoma Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates in Stillwater, the Stillwater Police Department (SPD) said Friday. Announced.
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Stolfa was initially identified as having a video recorded in 2021 that the FBI submitted to SPD that was “discovered on the dark web” before detectives discovered “multiple videos and photos revealing multiple sexual crimes.” He was arrested on July 10, a police statement said.
Officials said SPD presented 15 additional victims and new findings to the Payne County District Attorney's Office this week, in addition to those seen in the first video.
“All victims have been positively identified and notified,” SPD noted.
The first video was unearthed in Australia, where someone saw a recording of an unconscious patient being sexually assaulted and alerted authorities, Payne County District Attorney Laura Thomas said. said KFOR.
Australian authorities then used facial recognition technology to identify Stolfa and contacted the FBI and SPD.
According to an affidavit obtained by KFOR, Stolfa allegedly “sexually assaulted, assaulted, abused, and/or sexually assaulted 16 young male patients, six of whom were minors.” .
The victims are all adults and ranged in age from 15 to 23 during the three-month period in 2021 when the crimes allegedly took place.
“Nobody knew this had happened to them until SPD contacted them and told them,” Thomas said.
“It's really bad,” she said. “He's a very brazen, scary man.”
Prosecutors also said the suspect had made several recordings of him committing “crimes against nature” against animals and was in possession of more than 10,000 files (3.2 terabytes) containing material related to child sexual abuse. said that he had done so.
Thomas said the files allegedly found on Stolfa's device contained “images ranging from infancy to adulthood,” and that the disgraced dental assistant had contacted people online, including acquaintances from Stillwater. He is also suspected of sending the material to , it added.
KFOR reported that Stolfa was only employed by Central Oklahoma Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates from June to September 2021, after which he was fired due to “poor job performance.”
When the patient was sedated, Thomas said, “there were supposed to be three people in the room at once,” but “apparently” no one was there except Stolfa and the victim when he allegedly recorded the crime. he said.
“You will see the video as you make it,” the district attorney said, explaining that the recordings only lasted a few seconds at a time. “And this all happens in seconds, because someone could walk into the room at any time.”
He added that the clinic's management had no knowledge that anything like this was happening and was cooperating fully with the investigation.
Stolfa has been held in the Payne County Jail without bail since his arrest on July 10 and is currently charged with:
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Sexual battery: 10 counts
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Forced sodomy: 5 counts
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Child Exploitation: 6 counts
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Secret recording: 4 counts
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Sodomy – Victim Under 16: 2 counts
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Indecency with a child: 1 count
According to KFOR, one of his alleged victims has already filed a civil lawsuit.
