A top St. Louis neurosurgeon will serve two years in a Scottish prison after a judge cited the predatory nature of his nightclub assault on a 20-year-old.
Camilo Molina, 40, was sentenced in Glasgow after a guilty finding on a sexual assault charge tied to an April 5, 2025, incident at Kong nightclub. He had pleaded not guilty.
The Daily Mail reported that Judge Paul Reid KC ordered two years behind bars and placed Molina on the sex offenders register for 10 years, saying the court could not set aside the character of the conduct even given Molina’s professional standing.
Molina had held senior roles at Washington University in St. Louis as deputy director of spine innovation and associate professor. After the case, he resigned those posts and lost his medical license. The judge also noted the loss of his home.
Police said he was caught approaching the woman from behind and putting his hand under her skirt. A security guard testified she looked like she was crying after the touching.
On the evening of April 5, 2025, Molina and friends began drinking around 7 p.m. in Glasgow’s West End before going to the nightclub. Prosecutors described what cameras later showed inside.
Prosecutor Leo McGinn told the court the footage captured Molina crossing the bar area and making contact.
"touch her bum with his hand on the right side."
McGinn added a second detail from the same sequence.
"He placed his hand under her denim skirt."
Security stopped Molina. He was arrested. The woman was 20. Molina was a married neurosurgeon living in a $2 million St. Louis mansion, in Scotland for a medical conference.
Sex-crime cases keep testing how institutions handle offenders once the evidence lands, including a Florida teacher snared in a predator sting far from any operating room.
At trial Molina insisted he did not know the woman beforehand and that “nothing overtly sexual” occurred. He said they had talked about going to a hotel room, that he grazed her skirt in a flirtatious way, asked if she minded, and that she said she did not mind. He said he left, came back, and was then stopped by security.
Prosecutors had also alleged he pretended to be a police officer; he denied that claim. The court found him guilty of sexual assault after the not-guilty plea. Absolute calendar dates for the verdict and the sentencing hearing were not fixed beyond “last month” for the finding of guilt and “Wednesday” for the prison term.
Professionals who trade on trust face a hard landing when a jury or judge rejects their version, a pattern also visible when a California actor drew felony charges tied to casting calls and alleged abuse of position.
Defense attorney John Scullion put Molina’s career front and center before sentencing.
"Mr Molina worked really hard and established himself as one of the top surgeons in the country in an extremely complex field. He saved many lives by undertaking complex surgery that others would deem impossible."
Scullion described the fallout in blunt terms.
"The consequences of his conviction have been catastrophic as he has resigned from the Washington University Hospital and his license to practice medicine has been revoked."
Judge Reid acknowledged the wreckage and the regard Molina held with family, friends, colleagues, and patients. He still sent him to prison.
"There have been significant consequences for you in regard to your license to practice medicine and the loss of your home."
Reid said he could not ignore “the predatory nature of your behavior.” Molina, born in Colombia and later established in the United States, told the court his wife had stood by him.
Registry time is not a footnote. Names land on sex-offender lists for a reason, the same lists that surface when ICE sweeps pick up convicted sex offenders among many others.
By sentencing day the professional collapse was already complete: resignation from the university posts, medical license revoked, home loss flagged by the bench, and a decade on the register after release from the two-year term. Scullion did not immediately offer further comment when asked.
Public fights over how long repeat offenders stay under supervision, including votes that weakened lifetime controls on sex offenders, show why courts still reach for prison and registration when the conduct is ruled predatory.
Molina arrived in Glasgow as a spine specialist others called elite. He left under sentence, stripped of the license that defined him, with a young woman’s account, CCTV, and a security guard’s observation of her tears weighed against his claim of a harmless flirtation.
Titles and talent do not revise the tape. When a court calls the behavior predatory, the cell door is the point, not the résumé.