PORTLAND (AP) — A former Oregon doctor who previously fled the country to avoid federal drug charges has been sentenced to more than 44 years in prison for rape.
Steven Moos, 47, was sentenced Tuesday to 44 years and two months in prison after he was convicted of rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration and tampering with a witness.
Senior Judge Rita Batz Cobb said the sentence would protect the victim as well as the community. The prison term was well above the 25-year sentence Moos’ attorney Ted Occhialino asked for and above the minimum 35 years requested by Kevin Barton, county senior deputy district attorney.
Prosecutors say Moos sexually abused a teenage girl between 2012 and 2015 while he was living in Beaverton. He was arrested last year after the teen reported the abuse.
The former physician, who used to run a clinic in Tigard before the state revoked his license in 2004, did not apologize to his victim on Tuesday. She was not in the courtroom. He said he agrees with the jury’s verdict.
“I would have voted me guilty as well,” Moos said.
Previously, Moos was indicted on federal drug charges. He fled the country but was discovered by authorities in the United Arab Emirates in 2010. He was extradited to Oregon and sentenced in 2011 to probation for drug charges.
He was accused of separate federal crimes related to child sex abuse during a period in China and Dubai from 2004 to 2010. Charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places and attempting to engage in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places were filed last week in U.S. District Court in Portland.
