An Atlanta adolescent psychologist currently in Cobb County jail for recording himself molesting a pre-teen girl and posting it online has now been accused of sexual misconduct with his ex-wife in Florida.
Jonathan Gersh, 37, faces felony charges in the Pensacola area for allegedly drugging his ex-wife and once masturbating while standing over her as she slept, according to a Florida arrest affidavit the Atlanta Journal-Constitution acquired.
An April 10 warrant declares him a fugitive out of Florida.
He has been in Cobb jail since Valentine’s Day without bond on several felony charges of child molestation and child pornography.
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When he was arrested, Cobb police said that because of his job — he was the head of a mental health and therapy firm in Atlanta — there may be other victims.
A warrant indicated that Homeland Security agents alerted Cobb detectives to a photo Gersh had posted online of him molesting a nine-year-old girl, who was identified by her mother.
The alleged crimes happened in an unincorporated part of Cobb sometime between January and October of 2017, the warrant said.
In the Florida case, Gersh’s ex-wife told police that she became concerned about him in June 2015, when she first awoke to Gersh standing over her.
She told police she started to think Gersh was putting something in her drinks.
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Another “questionable incident” happened in July 2015 in Georgia and a year later in the Dominican Republic when she awoke with blue powder between her teeth, the affadavit said.
She confronted Gersh during the 2016 Labor Day weekend after finding, according to the affidavit, “blue spots in a cookie he attempted to give to her. She believes now that the blue substances was Valium.”
Valium is often prescribed as a sleep aid.
The Florida charges technically stem from only one incident that allegedly happened in October 2016, by which point Gersh and his ex-wife had been divorced three years.
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Gersh stayed at his ex-wife’s home in the Pensacola area to spend Halloween 2016 with their children.
The woman told police that she got to work Oct. 30 “disoriented, confused, and foggy.” She also found her right eyebrow “crusted with a white residue on it.”
Sometime during the next two nights she woke up to Gersh standing over her performing a sex act. The woman’s 8-year-old son was sleeping next to her in bed, police said.
She made Gersh go to another room and discovered a “white powder” in her mouth.
Gersh is slated for a bond hearing in Cobb next week, said Kim Isaza, the Cobb district attorney’s office spokeswoman.
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