HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Aversion Therapy
- VIDEO - Watch this documentary... School Tortures Autistic Teen with Electric Shock Interrogators laughing in the background... Cheryl McCollins, the mother of a tortured boy told a jury on Tuesday April 12 2012: "I had no idea, no idea, that they tortured the children in the school." She continued to declare "I never signed up for him to be tortured, terrorized and abused" In 2001, her son was video taped being tortured at the Judge Rotenburg Center for the disabled, located in the state of Massachusetts by staff and other employees of the school for not removing his jacket. [...]
Mental Screening
Mental Screening
A Basic Human Right Violated
PsychSearch A Basic Human Right Violated Colin Taufer “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman* or degrading treatment or punishment,” states article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that set out, for the first time, to universally protect everyone’s fundamental human rights. In headlines, we read about violations of this human right every day. The CIA waterboarding suspected terrorists, ISIS soldiers brutalizing their kidnapped victims, war criminals committing genocide. Clearly these are acts of torture. They are cruel, inhuman and degrading. They cause outrage. They start wars, they prolong [...]
Colin Milliken, Irish Psychiatrist, shocked by patient mistreatment
Colin Milliken BBC Ex-Muckamore psychiatrist 'horrified' by allegations By Lyndsey Telford September 23, 2024 A former consultant psychiatrist and clinical director at Muckamore Abbey Hospital was “absolutely horrified” by allegations of abuse of patients, an inquiry has heard. Dr Colin Milliken described his “shock, anger and despair” at the revelations, but said he had never been aware of any poor treatment or abuse of patients. He told a public inquiry he was “heartbroken” by the allegations, which emerged in 2017. He said some of the patients said to be affected had been under his direct care, but he could [...]
Andrew McFarland, Illinois Psychiatrist, used torturous treatment
Andrew McFarland Capitol News Illinois 160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of abusive psychiatrist she exposed By Jerry Nowicki and Molly Parker August 9, 2023 Elizabeth Packard In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, in part, publicly disagreeing with his positions on religion, women’s rights and slavery. She remained there for more than three years under the care of a psychiatrist who used torturous treatment methods likened to waterboarding, and who collaborated in the imprisonment [...]
Sangeeta Baruah, Guwahati psychiatrist, arrested
Hindustan Times Guwahati doctor couple arrested for torturing adopted daughter By Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha, Silchar May 08, 2023 -- Excerpt One of the couple’s neighbours had on Friday approached the police with a photograph of the minor girl tied to a pole on the terrace in summer heat. A doctor couple and their domestic help were arrested in Guwahati for allegedly torturing the couple’s four-year-old girl, who the couple said they had adopted more than three years ago, police said on Sunday. Police on Saturday night arrested psychiatrist Sangeeta Baruah from a house in Meghalaya’s Ri Bhoi district, a day [...]
Sangeeta Datta, Guwahati psychiatrist, arrested
Sangeeta Datta The Times of India 3-year-old adopted girl sexually abused, says Guwahati police By Mukut Das May 8, 2023 -- Excerpt GUWAHATI: The medical reports of the three-year-old girl, who was allegedly tortured by her adoptive doctor parents, established that she was also sexually abused, police said on Sunday. Guwahati police commissioner Diganta Barah said the child has been kept at the state home and a team of medical experts has been providing treatment to her. "Her medical reports revealed many worrying injury marks on her body, including private parts. Reports establish sexual offence was also commited," he said. [...]
Spanish Psychiatrist Javier Criado, sentenced
Spanish Psychiatrist Javier Criado The European Times Spanish Psychiatrist Criado condemned to one year in prison July 15, 2022 -- Excerpt psychiatrist javier criado condemned in 2022 1 year of prison The 9th Criminal Court of Seville (Spain) has condemned a psychiatrist, José Javier C. F., to one year in prison for a crime against moral integrity, with the aggravating circumstance of undue delay, for the “inappropriate, vulgar and humiliating” treatment of one of his patients. In addition to the prison sentence, he was banned from communicating with or approaching the victim within 300 metres for two years and ordered [...]
Psychiatrist Arvind Singh, PEI Psychiatrist – in hot water
Psychiatrist Arvind Singh CBC Woman inappropriately locked up at P.E.I. hospital, father alleges at doctor's misconduct hearing By Carolyn Ryan March 23, 2022 -- Excerpt A disciplinary hearing for a P.E.I. psychiatrist accused of professional misconduct heard Wednesday that he would order staff to lock up a patient with Huntington's disease for hours at a time. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of P.E.I. is considering allegations made against Dr. Arvind Singh at a series of hearings that began Wednesday in Charlottetown. The woman at the centre of the case is 40-year-old Laurel Hurst, who was under Singh's care [...]
Ferda Sakman, Veterans Affairs psychiatrist, accused of sexual abuse
Ferda Sakman NBC Bay Area Vets Accuse VA Therapist of Abuse Involving Sex, Astrology, Psychedelic Drugs By Stephen Stock, Michael Bott, Michael Horn and Mark Villarreal March 15, 2022 - Updated on March 16, 2022 -- Excerpt Three Bay Area military veterans struggling with serious mental health issues have filed a federal lawsuit accusing their former Veterans Affairs (VA) psychiatrist of serious ethical and legal lapses, including sexual abuse, dosing an unwitting patient with a potent psychedelic drug, and using astrology to inform therapeutic decisions. In their darkest emotional hours – coping with major trauma experienced both in and outside [...]