A Batavia chiropractor has been charged with numerous child pornography-related felony counts after allegedly secretly recording nude videos of child and adult patients, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office and Batavia Police Department said in a news release on Thursday.

According to a joint investigation by the Batavia Police Department and the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office’s Child Exploitation Unit, David Hanson, 43, owner of Hanson Family Chiropractic, secretly recorded more than 180 patients while they were undressed or unclothed, the news release said. The victims’ ages ranged from young children to adults, and were mostly female.

Many of the recordings appear to have been taken from a red light room used for red light and near-infrared light therapy, the release noted

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