Clovis, NM – Ninth Judicial District Attorney, Quentin Ray, announced that on June 15, 2023, 2023, Jon E. Perry, age 53, of Roswell, was found guilty by a Roosevelt County Jury of Criminal Sexual Penetration a 3rd degree felony.
Charged were filed against Perry, who once held a New Mexico license as a physician assistant, when law enforcement became aware that he had made sexual advances on a patient. The patient, who had been receiving mental health treatment at the Eastern New Mexico Sunrise Mental Heath Center, was under Perry’s care. Perry continued to manipulate the victim over the course of several months. In September of 2020, Perry traveled to Portales, NM and had sex with the woman at her work.
The New Mexico State Police in cooperation with the Roswell Police Department and Portales Police Department investigated the case.
New Mexico law prohibits a provider of psychotherapy from having sexual relations with a current patient or a person who has been a patient during the prior year. Perry faces up to three years in prison, a lifetime of parole and registration as a sex offender.
The Honorable Judge Mowrer presided over the trial. Perry will be sentenced at a later date. The case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney, Brian Scott Stover. Perry was represented by Criminal Defense Attorney, Chris Christensen of Portales.
