Scott will spend 13 years in prison after taking a plea bargain Thursday and pleading guilty to eight of 28 sex, drugs and money felony charges. Prosecutors said he faced nearly 99 years if convicted and receiving the maximum for all charges.
His twin, Mark, a Hamilton pediatrician, is now serving 21 to 27 years prison term after being convicted on October of molesting three former patients and for other charges stemming from money and drugs he paid victims for years to keep quiet.
But after a two-year investigation, 12 months of multiple indictments and pre-trial motions and a 14-day trial, a second trial is scheduled for Mark Blankenburg in May. Prosecutors say negotiations are ongoing for a plea to negate it.
Defense attorneys Chris Pagan and Michael Shanks requested 12 charges involving alleged child pornography, found at the Blankenburgs’ Susan Drive home, be severed from the original indictment and tried separately. The team said more time was needed to obtain documentation to prove the models in the photographs were 18 or older.
Piper said the state has offered Mark’s attorneys a plea bargain for those charges, which would eliminate a need for another trial.
“We have offered them (the defense) something no reasonable person would refuse,” Piper said, but he added they have not heard back from defense attorneys Pagan and Shanks.Pagan had no comment Friday.
A hearing date of March 4 has also been set in a civil case filed by a Fairfield man who is suing Mark Blankenburg for allegedly breaking a promise to care for him financially in exchange for his silence about being sexually abused by the doctor as a teenager.
Gary “Pat” Marchetti, 36, filed the lawsuitin November citing a breach of contract, medical negligence and child sexual abuse and assault. Marchetti claims Blankenburg molested him when he was 15 and gave him money and drugs to keep quiet.
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