Indian Health Service accused a colleague of sexually abusing boys in 2009, a senior personnel supervisor at the agency named Paul McSherry quickly took sides, a new internal report obtained by The Wall Street Journal says.

The government should defend the accused, pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber, and discredit the whistleblower by reassigning him to a remote outpost, Mr.

McSherry wrote, according to the report, which the IHS disclosed after a legal effort by the Journal’s publisher.