“Mr. Setzer is grateful for the consideration he has been given by Judge Reno,” Rogers said after Monday’s sentencing. “He looks forward to resuming his treatment for his compulsive behavior in the near future.”

After the hearing, one of the victims, 62, of north St. Louis County, said she thought Reno’s sentence for Setzer was too lenient, calling it “a slap on the wrist” that “totally disregarded us as women.”

“This has really messed me up,” said the woman, who saw Setzer for back pain and sciatica. “You go to your doctor, trusting him, having trust in him, and for him to betray me like that?

“He’s going to reap what he sow.”

Setzer is serving probation for convictions in St. Charles County of more than two dozen counts of fondling women at his office at 20 Progress Point Parkway in O’Fallon, Mo., and then billing insurance companies for treatment of nearly $5,900. On those convictions, he served a month in jail and received five years of probation.

Setzer is also facing civil lawsuits by some of the victims.

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