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A Florida dentist who is under investigation by the State Attorney General after mutiple claims of abuse has relinquished his medical license, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Dr. Howard Schneider gave the Florida Department of Health a voluntary relinquishment of his license this week pending upcoming board action.
The the past several weeks protesters gathered daily outside of his Dr. Schneider's office eventually sparked the criminal investigation and caused the closing of his practice on May 15.
Schneider said he's done nothing wrong, but, on Friday, he stepped down from practicing dentistry, according to the Associated Press.
The firestorm started after Brandi Motley wrote about the day she took to her 6-year-old daughter, Bri'el, to Schneider to have one tooth pulled.
On the day of surgery in December 2014, Motley said she was not allowed to sit with her daughter.
"The nurse suggested that it's best - that kids act better when parents aren't in the room. So they said we don't like parents back here for the procedures," she said.
Motley said she sat in the waiting room for three hours until the waiting turned to worrying.
"Finally, the nurse came and got me and she said there had been an incident," Brandi Motley said. "(Bri'el) was hyperventilating. She had marks all over her, blood all over her."
Angry and unable to get an clear explanation of what had happened, Motley says she and Bri'el left to rush to an emergency room.
"In the parking lot, she takes her gauze out, and I notice that all of her teeth were gone," Motley said.
She said Schneider pulled seven teeth.
According to her mom, Bri'el said Schneider hit and choked her, so she called police - twice. Although department records indicate officers responded and according to police logs one wrote a report, Jacksonville Sheriff's office told CNN "no report was written on this incident."
Initially, no attorney would take her case.
"That's when I decided to put her pictures on my Facebook and tell everybody what happened," Motley said.
Her story went viral, and soon, other parents posted their children's pictures and claims of unwanted procedures and abuse at the hands of Schneider.
Dr. Howard Schneider gave the Florida Department of Health a voluntary relinquishment of his license this week pending upcoming board action.
The the past several weeks protesters gathered daily outside of his Dr. Schneider's office eventually sparked the criminal investigation and caused the closing of his practice on May 15.
Schneider said he's done nothing wrong, but, on Friday, he stepped down from practicing dentistry, according to the Associated Press.
The firestorm started after Brandi Motley wrote about the day she took to her 6-year-old daughter, Bri'el, to Schneider to have one tooth pulled.
On the day of surgery in December 2014, Motley said she was not allowed to sit with her daughter.
"The nurse suggested that it's best - that kids act better when parents aren't in the room. So they said we don't like parents back here for the procedures," she said.
Motley said she sat in the waiting room for three hours until the waiting turned to worrying.
"Finally, the nurse came and got me and she said there had been an incident," Brandi Motley said. "(Bri'el) was hyperventilating. She had marks all over her, blood all over her."
Angry and unable to get an clear explanation of what had happened, Motley says she and Bri'el left to rush to an emergency room.
"In the parking lot, she takes her gauze out, and I notice that all of her teeth were gone," Motley said.
She said Schneider pulled seven teeth.
According to her mom, Bri'el said Schneider hit and choked her, so she called police - twice. Although department records indicate officers responded and according to police logs one wrote a report, Jacksonville Sheriff's office told CNN "no report was written on this incident."
Initially, no attorney would take her case.
"That's when I decided to put her pictures on my Facebook and tell everybody what happened," Motley said.
Her story went viral, and soon, other parents posted their children's pictures and claims of unwanted procedures and abuse at the hands of Schneider.
One mother was so upset, she attacked him outside of the office.
WRITTEN BY: VIOLA CONSTANCE | @Voila_its_Viola
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