A West Virginia doctor allegedly sexually abused a number of his patients over a several year span  — including disabled vets, according to court papers filed Thursday.

Dr. Jonathan Yates carried out the abuse from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Beckley, West Virginia, in the southwestern section of the state beginning in 2018, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Yates’ first victim, a 42-year-old who suffers from a “service-connected disability,” told investigators that the doctor purposefully cracked his neck in a way that made him go numb so he could carry out the abuse.

“Immediately after Dr. Yates immobilized veteran 1 with the neck crack and while veteran 1 was unable to resist, Dr. Yates physically rolled veteran 1 back onto his stomach pulled down veteran 1’s underwear without permission,” the complaint states.

The doctor then groped the veteran in the locked examination room, according to the complaint.

Yates abused at least two other veterans at the medical center in a similar manner, including one who had sought treatment because he was disabled due to PTSD.

The doctor also allegedly told other health care workers at the facility about the abuse — even lamenting that he couldn’t go further with his victims.

“I’m not able to explore the things I’d like to with some of the guys because I’m a married man and my wife wouldn’t understand,” Yates told another doctor who worked with him, according to the complaint.

Yates did not immediately return a request for comment.

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