Houston-area doctor accused of sexually assaulting 14-year-old girl

Doctor charged with sexually assaulting girl

One local doctor is out on bond after being charged with the sexual assault of a young girl.

DEER PARK, Texas - A Houston-area doctor is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, according to court documents and police.

Doctor charged with sexual assault

The Deer Park Police Department identified the suspect as 36-year-old Dwayne Dunbar of Webster. He is charged with sexual assault of a child 14-17 years old.

He is out of jail on a $75,000 bond.

According to police, Dunbar is a pain medicine physician who has been practicing in the greater Houston area for eight years. Police say he was using online dating apps to find underage girls who he would befriend and attempt to start a relationship with.

Investigation leads to arrest

Dwayne Dunbar. Police say he was using this photo on multiple apps. (Photo: Deer Park PD)

The backstory:

At the end of February, Deer Park police received a report from a school resource officer about a sexual assault of a child.

"He was using a profile online, and he was portraying himself to be anywhere from 18 to 24 years of age and just talking to multiple people online, trying to start relationships with them," said Lt. Chris Brown with the Deer Park Police Department. 

When police met with the girl, court documents state that she provided them with the Snapchat profile for a man she said sexually assaulted her, who she knew as "Dwayne". 

According to court documents, the girl said he had messaged her on Instagram, and she thought he was 19 or 20-years-old.

She told authorities that sometime between October and November 2024, he picked her up from outside her house and took her back to his apartment, where he gave her alcohol, according to court documents. That’s where he allegedly sexually assaulted her.

According to court documents, Dunbar told police that he met with the girl in his apartment two or three times in 2024, but denied sexual intercourse.

"When you see someone like that with a higher status in the community take advantage of young people like that, it's always a shame, but we treat it like any other case and investigate it to its fullest," said Brown.

What you can do:

Anyone with information on Dunbar’s activities or who might be a victim is asked to call the Deer Park Police Department’s Lt. Brown at (281) 930-2142 or crimetips@deerparktx.org.

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Why you should care:

One tech expert says, sadly, this type of situation is common. He adds that a lot of online predators are using Instagram to create fake profiles, and Snapchat because messages and pictures can disappear quickly, but he says there are signs families need to look out for. 

"We've also seen these fake profiles are using sometimes artifical intelligence to generate content, but to generate pictures that are hyperrealistic and that way they don't show the true identity," said Juan Guevara Torres. "If the profile was created recently within the first six months, that's a yellow alert maybe a red alert. One of the things that I would like parents to know is don't provide social media accounts for kids that are 19–20 years or younger. I know parents will have a lot of resistance from teenagers, but it's way better to have an argument with your teenage girl or boy than to be dealing with situations like this." 

Guevara Torres says today's parents need to have passwords to their kids' social media and really monitor messages to keep them safe.

"If kids are having online interactions, parents should be watching. If kids are texting each other online. They should be watching. They need to audit their technology, no matter what that is, to make sure that kids are safe," said Guevara Torres.