KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has awarded damages to two veterans who say they were sexually abused by a former physician assistant at a VA hospital in Kansas.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled in separate decisions Monday that hospital personnel should have "fairly foreseen" the wrongful conduct by physician assistant Mark Wisner, KCUR-FM reported.

Multiple patients had complained about Wisner's conduct at the Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth, Kansas, during the years when Wisner treated both veterans.

Wisner is serving a 16-year prison sentence after h...