The lawsuit describes how, during the October 14, 2025, appointment, McGraw purportedly “faked” a phone call in the middle of a pelvic examination; after he finished his “call,” he activated the video function on his smartphone camera and placed it into his breast pocket, with the “camera facing outward and recording.”
A recently-filed lawsuit accuses a U.S. Army gynecologist of abusing his position of authority and trust to secretly record at least one female patient.
According to NBC News, the lawsuit states that the current plaintiff is believed to be just one Dr. Blaine McGraw’s alleged victims. Furthermore, court filings indicate that U.S. Army leadership had reason to know that McGraw engaged in inappropriate practices but failed to take meaningful action, even after receiving multiple sexual misconduct complaints.
“By doing so, the Army gave cover to a predator in uniform,” says the lawsuit, which was filed earlier this week in Texas’s Bell County District Court.
McGraw has since been suspended from his position and is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division, or CID. In a statement, officials from Fort Hood said that the Army will proactively contact “potentially affected patients” as more information comes to light.
NBC News notes that, to date, at least 25 women have been contacted after investigators found photographs and images of “female body parts” on McGaw’s electronic devices.
The lawsuit, though, says that McGaw’s allegedly misconduct wasn’t limited to capturing images of his unsuspecting patients—he also allegedly touched patients in a way that made some feel uncomfortable, made crude remarks, and recommended medically unnecessary procedures.
The lawsuit describes the plaintiff, referred to by the pseudonym Jane Doe in court documents, as the civilian spouse of an active-duty military member with more than 20 years in service. She is being represented by attorney Andrew Cobos, who said that he’s currently representing more than 45 women who have since accused McGraw of misconduct.
“Upon information and belief, investigators recovered thousands of photographs and videos from his phone, taken over the course of multiple years, depicting scores of female patients, many of whom remain unidentified,” the lawsuit alleges.
Doe, the plaintiff, said that she only found out about the videos after she received a call from U.S. Army investigators asking her to attend an interview. There, she was told that McGraw had secretly filmed female patients during their appointment times. During subsequent meetings, she was shown screenshots from McGraw’s videos, including images that “unmistakably depicted” her body during an examination that had taken place three days earlier.
The investigators said that McGraw had recorded “nearly the entirety of her final appointment, including both the breast and pelvic examinations, without her knowledge or consent.”
The lawsuit describes how, during the October 14, 2025, appointment, McGraw purportedly “faked” a phone call in the middle of a pelvic examination; after he finished his “call,” he activated the video function on his smartphone camera and placed it into his breast pocket, with the “camera facing outward and recording.”
“McGraw then resumed the examination and asked Jane Doe to remove her pants so that he could examine the pelvic area—even as his phone captured every private, intimate moment and organ without Jane Doe’s knowledge,” the lawsuit alleges. “McGraw then suggested a breast exam, despite Jane Doe protesting that she wasn’t having any breast-related concerns. McGraw did not ask for consent to record—because he knew should would never give it.”
Three days later, after her meeting with CID investigators, Doe was given a pamphlet containing the contact information for different Army department; she left feeling “disoriented and disarrayed.”
“She sat in her parked car and cried,” the lawsuit states. “Her sense of safety had been shattered.”
Doe’s attorneys note that McGraw was also reported for misconduct while stationed in Hawaii; at the time, Army leadership allegedly refused to take any meaningful action, telling at least one whistleblower to “send an email.”
“The Army’s posture was one of indifference and avoidance, not urgency or accountability,” the lawsuit claims. “The Army made no meaningful effort to coordinate trauma care or counseling for Jane Doe or for the many other victims left in Defendant McGraw’s wake.”
“To this date, aside from the interview initiated by criminal investigators, no one from the Army has reached out to Jane Doe or other victimized Army wives, daughters, and female soldiers to offer support, discuss their experiences, or address the institutional failures that allowed Defendant McGraw’s misconduct to persist unchecked,” the lawsuit says.
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