An American doctor has been charged with fraud after his patients, who are opioid addicts, complained to the police that he sexually abused them in exchange for drug prescriptions.

Based on a criminal complaint against Ritesh Kalra, 51, of Secaucus, New Jersey, as reported by New York Daily News (NYDN), some female patients told several of the doctor’s former employees that they were touched inappropriately and coerced into sexual acts to obtain their prescriptions.

Investigators found more than 31,000 oxycodone prescriptions written by Kalra between January 2019 and February 2025, according to NYDN.

Kalra’s lawyer denied the charges against his client in a 19 July letter to NYDN.

Meanwhile, some residents of Allington, England had complained about the annual Swingathon held in the village on 17 to 20 July.

The conservative residents were outraged, saying they did not want the title “swingers capital of England” attached to their sleepy village, New York Post (NYP) reports.

“It’s mostly elderly people and families here so you can imagine them spitting their tea when they learned we were to be the home of Swingathon,” one anonymous resident told Southwest News Service.

Attendees at the latest edition of the summertime sex festival that was started in 2020 and is open only to adults outnumbered the local population of 897, according to NYP.

The residents publicly complained about the onslaught of “loud moaning sounds” coming from the festival site that attracted around 1,000 amorous attendees, NYP reports.

Swingathon’s organizer Matthew Cole defended the event. NYP quoted him as saying that “individuals within this community are respectful, conscientious, and more likely to practice safe sex and be regularly tested than the average person you might meet on a night out in a club.”