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Psychiatrist at centre of divorce
Cape Argus (South Africa) Psychiatrist at centre of divorce; Details of affair emerge in court application lodged by wife By: FATIMA SCHROEDER A SOUTHERN suburbs psychiatrist is at the centre of bitter divorce and maintenance proceedings in the Cape High Court, in which it has emerged that he had an affair with a woman he had been treating. The woman is married to Stuart Ireland, director of cosmetics company, Prestige Cosmetics. Ireland\'s wife Sylvia laid a complaint against the psychiatrist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPSCA) and made her husband fork out R18 000 to have him [...]
Thomas Folsom, Psychiatrist, Going to Prison for Sex with Patient
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota) New Brighton / Therapist gets reduced sentence for sex with patient By David Hanners September 11, 2008 A once-prominent Twin Cities psychiatrist was sentenced to three years and five months in prison Thursday for having sex with a female patient he treated for seven years. In a hearing as sedate as it was short, a judge told Thomas Lee Folsom he was getting six months less than state guidelines called for because he had accepted responsibility and was amenable to treatment. "He in essence confessed openly and willfully as soon as he was contacted by [...]
Bristol child porn doctor can keep working
This is bristol.co.uk Brought to you by Evening Post A Bristol psychiatrist who was convicted of viewing child pornography can keep working, but has had limitations imposed by regulators. The General Medical Council (GMC) suspended Dr Darryl Watts from practising for 12 months in April 2004 after he was found guilty of possessing indecent images of a child at a Hereford Magistrates Court hearing in August 2003. The adult psychiatrist trained at Bristol University and worked at Blackberry Hill Hospital in Fishponds until three months before his arrest. In April 2005 the GMC allowed Dr Watts to practice again, but [...]
Ian Anthony Martin – Dirty doctor’s appeal fails
THE MERCURY Dirty doctor's appeal fails BY SALLY GLAETZER A JAILED psychiatrist who paid one patient to bash another in a bid to shut her up has failed to overturn his conviction. Ian Anthony Martin, 62, of Karoola, was jailed for 18 months in February after a jury found him guilty of attempting to interfere with a witness who was pursuing a complaint against him. The Supreme Court in Launceston heard Martin had a habit of forming sexual relationships with his patients. When an affair ended with one patient, the woman made a complaint to the Medical Complaints Tribunal. The [...]
Psychiatrist Alan John Stubley accused of forcing sex offences against two of his female patients
The West Australian A 62-year-old woman has described freezing with fear as her psychiatrist sexually abused her during a session for post-natal depression in the 1970s. Former psychiatrist Alan John Stubley, 80, is on trial in Perth Supreme Court accused of forcing sex offences against two of his female patients in the mid-late 1970s. One of the alleged victims today told the jury the doctor had abused her on her first face-to-face session after being discharged from a psychiatric hospital where Dr Stubley had treated her for post-natal depression. She said she had been shocked when the doctor told her [...]
Psychiatrist Alan John Stubley admits lying about sex with patients
ABC News Psychiatrist admits lying about sex with patients He told the court he only had sex with the women as a form of therapy - not for his own sexual gratification. An 80-year-old former psychiatrist has admitted he lied to the medical board about having sexual relationships with female patients in his Perth clinic. Alan John Stubley is on trial in the Perth Supreme Court facing charges of rape and indecent assault against several of his patients in the 1970s. He told the court he only had sex with the women as a form of therapy - not for [...]
Alan John Stubley – guilty of raping and sexually abusing two female patients
Alan John Stubley – guilty of raping and sexually abusing two female patients The West Australian Doctor, 80, faces jail for sex abuse Psychiatrist Alan Stubley An 80-year-old former psychiatrist spent last night in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping and sexually abusing two female patients more than 30 years ago. After seven hours of deliberation, the Supreme Court jury convicted Alan John Stubley of 10 of the 14 alleged offences against two women during psychotherapy sessions from 1975 to 1978. He was found guilty of six counts of rape, three of indecent assault and one [...]
Peter Benet, Psychiatrist, “sacrificed his patients for money and power”
Hartford Courant EARLIER WARNING IGNORED; CRITICIZED IN 2002, PSYCHIATRIST NOW FACES 2 OTHER COMPLAINTS By Hilary Waldman August 11, 2008 On Feb. 14, 2002, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asked Connecticut health regulators to yank Dr. Peter Benet's license to practice medicine, calling the psychiatrist a "physician who sacrificed his patients for money and power." But the state didn't take action. Benet continued to see patients. Now he is facing disciplinary action by the Department of Public Health, based on two unrelated complaints. Those complaints, Blumenthal said, might have been prevented if the health department had listened to him six years [...]
Psychiatrist admits inappropriate sexual relationship with patient
Herald Sun By Grant McArthur A PSYCHIATRIST who tried to take a loaded gun into a Melbourne court has admitted having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a patient almost two decades ago. Dr Jerry Gelb - suspended from treating patients over the gun incident early last year - is facing further sanctions from the Medical Practitioners Board over his relationship with the patient. The board heard this week that Dr Gelb was a \"naive and inexperienced\" psychiatrist in his first year of practice when he began a sexual relationship with a woman he was treating for bulimia and emotional problems [...]