CRIMES
William Cone, 73-year-old Psychiatrist, gets 133 year sentence
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) PSYCHIATRIST GETS 133-YEAR TERM FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF TWO PATIENTS --Excerpt LEXINGTON, MO. – A psychiatrist who said “moral insanity” caused him to sexually abuse two patients was sentenced to 133 years in prison. Dr. William Cone was convicted in December of 19 counts of sexual assault. Circuit Court Judge Robert Ravenhill sentenced Cone on Tuesday to seven years on each count. Cone, 73, apologized to the victims and said he hoped that his case would help keep others from being victimized by “other impaired physicians.” Prosecutors said Cone, a veteran staff member at the [...]
James Taylor, Psychiatrist, Pennsylvania, sentenced
James Taylor The Morning Call DOCTOR JAILED FOR BEATING * JAMES TAYLOR ATTACKED ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIST WITH A CROWBAR; TERM 6-12 YEARS. By MIKE FRASSINELLI and The Morning Call September 05, 1997 -- Excerpt Completing his plunge from prominent psychiatrist to jailed felon, Dr. James Taylor was sentenced Thursday to six to 12 years in state prison for bludgeoning a female psychiatrist with a clawed crowbar last autumn. Monroe County Judge Jerome Cheslock sentenced Taylor to an additional six months to a year in prison for intimidating witnesses in a separate tax-fraud case, bringing his total jail term to 6-1/2-13 years. [...]
Dennis Lardent, Barstow psychiatrist, arrested
Dennis Lardent Barstow Dispatch Doctor held on sex, drug misuse charges By Irwin M. Goldberg Dispatch Staff Writer February 24, 1994 BARSTOW – Police arrested a Barstow psychiatrist Wednesday on suspicion of drugging a patient and sexually exploiting her. Dennis Robert L’Ardent, 47, was arrested at his motel room at the Good Nite Inn, 2551 Commerce Parkway, at about 5:15 a.m. after family members of the victim called police, said Officer Mark Franey of the Barstow Police Department. The acts allegedly took placed in L’Ardent’s office at 900 E. Main St. and in room 237 of the motel, Franey said. [...]
William Gray, Virginia Psychiatrist, License Revoked
William Gray Roanoke Times BOARD REVOKES GRAY'S MEDICAL LICENSE November 13, 1993 The regulatory board overseeing Virginia's health professions said yesterday it had revoked the medical license of a Roanoke psychiatrist who had sex with his patients. William G. Gray "unethically exploited the physician-patient relationship by engaging in sexual activities" with four young male patients, the Virginia Board of Medicine said. The board also determined that Gray had violated medical ethics and standards of care by giving the patients housing, food, money, transportation and other gifts in exchange for sexual favors. Gray offered to surrender his license to practice medicine [...]
Vincent Festa, NY psychiatrist, charged
Newsday (New York) Psychiatrist Charged --Excerpt A Ronkonkoma man who is a school psychiatrist at Herricks High School in New Hyde Park has been arrested and charged with sodomizing and sexually abusing teenage boys at his home, Suffolk police reported. Vincent Festa, 64, of 170 Foster Ave., was charged with two counts of third-degree sodomy and one count of third-degree sexual abuse in connection with complaints involving three Ronkonkoma-area boys. Festa was arrested Sunday by Fourth Squad detectives and was arraigned yesterday in First District Court, Central Islip, according to police... Excerpted from: Psychiatrist Charged Newsday (New York) July [...]
Scott Orens, Bradenton psychiatrist “something was wrong” with him
Scott Orens Tampa Bay Times Psychiatrist loses license By Carol Gentry October 3, 1992 -- Excerpt Other doctors knew something was wrong with Bradenton psychiatrist Scott Orens. They reported him to authorities, but little was done until one night in June 1991. According to police reports, that's when Orens grabbed a little girl in a restaurant parking lot, dragged her 20 yards in a hammerlock, yanked her head back by the hair and slapped her forehand and backhand until horrified witnesses intervened. On Friday, the Florida Board of Medicine indefinitely suspended Orens' license after an expert on mental illness [...]
Melvin Wise, Florida psychiatrist, license revoked
Melvin Wise St. Petersburg Times Doctor's license revoked By Carol Gentry August 8, 1992 -- Excerpt ... Malcolmson told the board Florida needs to form a task force to ease the plight of sexual abuse victims who are getting chewed up by the system. While seven women brought complaints against Dr. Melvin Wise, two refused to testify after seeing the others skewered by Wise's attorneys. Only Malcolmson's case survived the legal process. It was the basis for the board's vote Friday to revoke Wise's license. Wise, who practiced child and adolescent psychiatry in Miami, did not appear at the hearing. [...]
Robert Willis, psychiatrist (NY & NJ) – sentenced
Robert Willis Los Angeles Times INSIDE-TRADING PSYCHIATRIST IS SPARED JAIL; SECURITIES: A NEW YORK MAN WHO OBTAINED STOCK INFORMATION FROM A PATIENT -- THE WIFE OF A TOP EXECUTIVE -- GETS PROBATION AND A $150,000 FINE. January 8, 1992 -- Excerpt A psychiatrist who traded stocks on inside information about BankAmerica Corp. that he learned while treating the wife of financier Sanford Weill was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation and fined $150,000. The sentence was surprisingly light, as the presiding judge had been highly critical of the psychiatrist, Robert Willis, 52, of Tenafly, N.J., for betraying the trust [...]
James Tyhurst, Vancouver psychiatrist, sentenced
James Tyhurst The Globe and Mail CANADA IN BRIEF Psychiatrist sentenced By CP June 26, 1991 A Vancouver psychiatrist found guilty of sexually enslaving four former patients was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison. Dr. James Tyhurst, former head of the University of British Columbia psychiatry department, was convicted earlier this month.
Michael Gilbert, Miami Psychiatrist – Gets Year for Bribe
Michael Gilbert The Miami Herald Famed Psychiatrist Gets Year for Bribe By Don Van Natta Jr. May 1, 1991 -- Excerpt Famed criminal psychiatrist Michael Gilbert stood up one last time in a Dade courtroom Tuesday and asked a judge to go easy on a mentally deficient defendant. Only this time, the defendant was Dr. Gilbert. "I regret terribly what I did, and I know what I did was an aberration," said Gilbert, 75, who was convicted in March of bribing a Metro-Dade police officer to concoct a cocaine bust against a Miami lawyer. His plea for leniency [...]