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Doctor accused of sexual assault facing more charges

MARQUETTE, MI--   Additional charges have been brought against a Marquette doctor accused of writing prescriptions for sexual favors. 

Jonathan Robertson, 43, was arrested in August and charged with eight counts of criminal sexual conduct. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says the alleged assaults occurred in examination rooms between October 2014 and October 2015. He says Robertson penetrated both women with an ungloved hand and forced one of them to perform oral sex on him twice in exchange for prescriptions.

At a second preliminary hearing in Marquette Wednesday, a $50,000 bond was added to each charge.

Robertson now faces ten counts of 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct during a felony, delivery of a controlled substance causing death, eight counts of delivery/manufacture of a narcotic/cocaine, and three counts of delivery/manufacture of a schedule 4 drug or marijuana.

An additional preliminary hearing is set for December 17.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.