dr. schneider has made a ford un from medicaid. state reports show he had received $4 million in reimbursements in the last five years. now the florida attorney general has launched a medicaid fraud investigation and the claims stretch back decades. a 1995 malpractice suit was settled out of court saying he placed 16 crowns in the mouth of a 3-year-old. the boy's family was paid $7,500. a said suit was filed that year but the documents have been destroyed and the outcome is unclear. >> someone performing procedures that children don't need and pulling teeth that he knows should still be in the child's mouth, in some cases, we even have where many procedures were done except for what they came in. >> this attorney represents dominic and dozens more of the doctor's former patients and this month he filed a potential class-action lawsuit on behalf of these children claiming patterns of abuse of the child patients an as youkation that cnn discovered had been made before. according to this 2013 police report the mother of a 5-year-old p

dr. schneider and still have emotional trauma. >> what? >> yeah. absolutely.e has been doing this for 45 years. there's, you know, on top of dealing with the emotional trauma, there are simple things like eating and speaking and, you know, poor girl had all of her front teeth, i think seven or eight ripped out when they said only one with a problem and she didn't have any pain. so it's outrageous! >> so we understand he is under investigation by the state attorney general. he didn't just shut down his office. he gave the florida department of health a voluntary relinquishment of his license. i'm looking at this and thinking from the public view the fact he just relinquished everything seems incriminating to him. from a legal view, does that play in? >> it probably wouldn't come in in court. i know it wouldn't come in in court. but certainly it is a step in the right direction. the protesters were out there the first couple of weeks, all of these moms. it was kind of a beautiful sight. and they let other people know what was going on inside this clinic, which t

dr. howard schneider tortured their children slapping and choking them while performing unnecessary painful he's now agreed to stop practicing medicine as police investigate the claims. abc's matt gutman has the story. >> reporter: this morning, this dentist under attack literally and also legally. a group of florida parents alleging dr. howard schneider assaulted their kids. >> after three hours they came and got me and said there has been an accident. >> reporter: brandy says she took her 6-year-old for a routine single tooth extraction. >> when i go back there i notice she's bloody and has marked all over her face. >> reporter: she said she had to rush her to the hospital. her mouth gushing, bruises on her neck and head. motley went to the police but they didn't file a report so she took to facebook. another angry mom saw it and posted this video. she says this is her 3-year-old son zion strapped on to schneider's restraining board. >> i pretty much told him why is he screaming? why are you being so rough with him. >> reporter: christopher said he needed one metal cap. after three sessio