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Psychiatrist Richard Leslie Golden groomed teen clients for sex
Vancouver Sun Psychiatrist groomed teen clients for sex report: MISCONDUCT I Expelled doctor promised to marry girls he exploited, agency says By Neal Hall A Vancouver child psychiatrist expelled this week for sexual misconduct with three teenage girls groomed them for sex, promised to marry two of them, and had intercourse with one girl in his office, says a report by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. The report was issued Friday, a day after the college announced it had stripped Dr. Richard Leslie Golden of his right to practise medicine for unprofessional conduct, finding he acted as a [...]
Sex Fiend Psychiatrist Jeannot Hoareau Caught In Moscow
St. Petersburg Times, Russia By Francesca Mereu Staff Writer MOSCOW — Police have detained a French psychotherapist who is wanted in France after being convicted in absentia last year of sexually abusing several female patients. He has lived and worked in Moscow for seven years. The psychotherapist, Jeannot Hoareau, believes the case is politically motivated and is hoping to be granted asylum in Russia, his lawyer, Igor Trunov, said Monday. Hoareau, a specialist in forensic psychiatry and sexual disorders, had been treating people at the European Center for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, which he opened in Moscow last year. He had [...]
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: War Declared on TeenScreen
The Philadelphia Inquirer Test takes on teens' mental health; Schools say students are referred for help. Critics fear abuse. By Rita Giordano February 9, 2006 Somewhere in junior high, Jennifer Rashti lost her smile. The once-genial Cherry Hill girl began to feel sad, angry, low. By last year, when she was a high school sophomore, Rashti was making excuses not to go out with friends. Then Cherry Hill High School West, which Rashti attends, announced last winter that it was introducing TeenScreen, a voluntary questionnaire developed by Columbia University to help identify youngsters with undiagnosed mental health problems and used [...]
INDIANAPOLIS STAR: Public Enemy No. 1 Against TeenScreen
The Indianapolis Star (Indiana) September 18, 2005 Teen privacy concerns spur suit over psych test By Ruth Holladay Conscientious parents concerned that their children perform well on ISTEP starting Monday would be wise to pay attention to a less incisive and more insidious exam creeping into some Indiana high schools. Called TeenScreen, this computerized Q&A is designed to diagnose mental illness and identify depression and suicidal tendencies in adolescents. That ambitious agenda, plus a history of giving the test to some students without parental permission, has put TeenScreen in the hot seat. Friday, a lawsuit outlining these complaints was filed [...]
COLUMBUS DISPATCH: TeenScreen critic from Florida
The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) Poll tries to gauge mental health; Schools, critics argue value of TeenScreen in preventing suicide By Jennifer Smith Richards January 30, 2006 Teens: Have you ever felt nervous around a group of other young people, say, in the cafeteria? How about in front of people? Have you thought about killing yourself recently? Hundreds of Ohio teens answer questions such as these at their high schools with a click of a mouse. A computerized survey called TeenScreen prompts New Albany and Pickerington high-school students to divulge anxiety, suicidal thoughts, drug use, obsession with hand-washing and more. It's [...]
SHRINK JULIAN MORRELL ADMITS SEX WITH UNDERAGE GIRL;
Daily Post (Liverpool) CHILD PSYCHIATRIST GROOMED TEENAGER By MATT WITHERS AN eminent child psychiatrist yesterday admitted having sex with a 14-year-old Gwynedd schoolgirl he groomed on the internet. Dr Julian Morrell, 42, posed as a 15-year-old to be friend the girl on a web chat room called \"Pre-Teen\". The former consultant psychiatrist, previously considered one of the UK\'s top experts in child sleep disorders, exchanged e-mails and text messages with the youngster for a month. He then drove from his London home to a Snowdonia campsite in August and had sex with her in his tent. The married father-of-two told [...]
Predator psychiatrist – Robert Towndrow
Sydney Morning Herald Predator psychiatrist left to strike again Robert Towndrow abused two vulnerable patients, but his peers closed ranks, writes Michael Bradley. Only a handful of people gathered on a steamy January morning to witness the final demise of Robert Towndrow\'s career. The hearing of the NSW Medical Tribunal, the day after Australia Day, was never going to be a scene of high drama. Towndrow, a former doyen of Australian psychiatry, had deregistered himself six months earlier and was not expected to contest the charges of professional misconduct against him. But beneath the hearing\'s procedural formality, and the calm [...]
Psychiatrist Christopher Allison refuses to say how many patients he had sexual relations with
Hampshire Chronicle Psychiatrist refuses to say how many patients he had sexual relations with A BASINGSTOKE psychiatrist accused of being a sex addict who raped or indecently assaulted eight women over several years, refused repeatedly at his trial to say how many patients he had been involved in sexual relationships with. Prosecution counsel Charles Gabb, cross-examining Christopher Allison at Winchester Crown Court, asked the 60- year-old about sexual relationships with two women patients before saying: \"Did you have a sexual relationship with any other patient?\" \"Yes,\" replied Allison, who was then asked: \"How many? \"I am not prepared to answer [...]
MIAMI HERALD: New website, www.PsychSearch.net, has been launched to help journalists
The Miami Herald February 28, 2004 ACTION LINE By Herald Staff ALERT CHECK OUT EXPERTS IN MENTAL HEALTH A new website, , has been launched to help journalists, law enforcement, insurance investigators and citizens gain ready access to governmental reports on mental health practitioners in the state of Florida. The website contains disciplinary records from the state Department of Health on psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage counselors and clinical social workers. These reports cover medical incompetence, misprescribing drugs, sexual misconduct, criminal convictions, ethical lapses and other offenses. When this phase of report gathering is complete, the site will expand [...]
Jailed psychiatrist Christopher Allison may have attacked hundreds of women
Telegraph Jailed psychiatrist may have attacked hundreds of women By Stewart Payne A consultant psychiatrist was jailed for eight years yesterday for raping and sexually abusing vulnerable patients as police suggested that he may have attacked hundreds more women referred to him for treatment. The General Medical Council was informed of concerns about Dr Christopher Allison 14 years ago but failed to act. Detectives said the crimes for which he was tried at Winchester Crown Court may have been the \"tip of the iceberg\". Det Con Ian Jones, who investigated the case, said Allison, 60, a married father of three, [...]
Kennard Kobrin – Mass. Psychiatrist – Guilty in Drug Scam
The Boston Herald May 31, 2003 In Brief; Fall River shrink fined in drug scam Psychiatrist Kennard Kobrin A Fall River psychiatrist was given a suspended sentence, placed on probation and fined $11,000 yesterday for illegally prescribing drugs and defrauding Medicaid. Bristol Superior Court Judge Robert Kane sentenced Dr. Kennard C. Kobrin, who was found guilty of three charges in December. Attorney Robert Griffith, counsel for Kobrin, said the ruling will be appealed. Kennard Kobrin - Psychiatrist
Head Games
Boston Magazine An alarming number of Massachusetts psychiatrists have gotten caught againand again having sex with some of this society\'s most vulnerable people: their own patients. By Elaine McArdle JUNE 2003 The man was persistent. For months, he complimented her, shared personal details about himself, and made sexually charged comments. Sallie Park resisted, but as a fortysomething homemaker with marital problems, \"I was feeling very, very vulnerable,\" she says. \"My husband was saying very hurtful things. And this guy was very sympathetic.\" Finally, the man reached for her hand. He moved his own hand up her arm and down [...]
Michael Haslam – psychiatrist sentenced to seven years
BBC News Psychiatrist jailed for rape December 16th, 2003 Psychiatrist Michael Haslam A consultant psychiatrist has been sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a woman patient and indecently assaulting two others. Dr Michael Haslam, 69, was found guilty of raping the woman in a hospital photocopying room while he was working for the NHS in North Yorkshire in 1988. A jury at Leeds Crown Court also found Haslam, of Crayke, near Easingwold, North Yorkshire, guilty of four charges of indecent assault involving three patients. The attacks took place between 1981 and 1988. Haslam worked at Clifton [...]
Three years for sex-session psychiatrist Darren Holdsworth
news.scotsman.com By JOHN ROBERTSON law correspondent A POT-SMOKING psychiatrist with adventurous sexual tastes was yesterday branded a potential risk to women and jailed for three years for an indecent assault on a teenager. Darren Holdsworth, 36, appeared stunned and close to tears after a judge rejected a plea to spare him from a prison term. A court heard that the assault had been committed during a two-week relationship of \"exploratory and uninhibited\" sex between Holdsworth and the victim, aged 19. Holdsworth, who practised at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, saw his thrashing of the woman with a metal coathanger as being part [...]
Robin Lawrence – found guilty of serious professional misconduct
The Western Mail A HARLEY Street psychiatrist, who was suspended after he had sex with a patient, was yesterday allowed to resume his career. Dr Robin Lawrence, 45, of Alleyn Park, Dulwich, London, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council in January 2000 after he was found to have had sexual relations with a patient, known as Miss A.
Shock treatment psychiatrists
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA Shock Treatment Psychiatrist Theresa L. Clark 1200 7TH AVENUE NORTH, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33705 holds staff privileges at Morton Plant Hospital, 300 Pinellas Street, Clearwater, Florida Shock Treatment Psychiatrist Maykel Luna Concepcion 300 PINELLAS STREET, MS 70, CLEARWATER, FL 33756 holds staff privileges at Morton Plant Hospital, 300 Pinellas Street, Clearwater, Florida Francis K Butler 100 MAIN STREET, SUITE 203, SAFETY HARBOR, FL 34695, holds staff privileges at WINDMOOR HEALTHCARE OF CLEARWATER, 11300 U.S. 19 North, Clearwater, FL 33764
Sex attack shrink Kolathur Unni jailed
BBC News A psychiatrist has been jailed for 18 months for a sex attack on a patient during a hypnotherapy session. Kolathur Unni, 56, was permitted to work despite a history of indecency towards women patients. The psychiatrist, of Ash Grove, Palmers Green, north London, was unanimously convicted of indecent assault on a woman, known as Miss A, between January and June 1996. He was acquitted of two further similar counts involving mother-of-two Miss B. Unni was struck off by the General Medical Council (GMC) after his initial fall from grace. However, six years later, after working as a shelf [...]
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Lance Pope, Psychiatrist, Sentenced for Thievery
The Associated Press Psychiatrist sentenced in house-sale scam April 2, 1999 Early last year, Massachusetts antiques dealers were delighted with the opportunity a psychiatrist gave them to buy the contents of well-appointed homes on Martha's Vineyard. What they didn't know was that he had broken into the homes they were visiting. On Thursday, Lance Pope, 43, was sentenced to serve 18 months of a 2 -year sentence in the Dukes County House of Correction for breaking and entering and larceny. Pope had managed to sell off a truckload of antiques before a sharp-eyed police detective caught him just after the [...]
Mayna Choudry, CA psychiatrist, arrested for drugging woman to unconsciousness, then sexually assaulting and beating her
The Associated Press Dateline: Modesto, Calif. April 11, 1999 A California state prison psychiatrist has been arrested at a Modesto motel in the rape of a Reno, Nev., woman, officers said. Mayna Meah Choudry, 65, is accused of using drugs Wednesday to make the 39-year-old woman lose consciousness, then sexually assaulting and beating the woman. Police Lt. Skip McKune said Choudry knew the woman and picked her up early last week near Reno. He agreed to pay her $ 1,000 a day if she would accompany him to California and help him celebrate his birthday. The woman called police on [...]
Gloria Keraga, psychiatrist, accused of collecting excessive insurance payments by convincing patients that they needed treatment for multiple personalities related to satanic-cult abuse
The Houston Chronicle Defendants free, but not cleared, in cult-memories trial; Psychotherapists still say patients were abused By Mark Smith April 04, 1999 Two Houston psychotherapists once accused of an insurance scheme exploiting patients' memories of satanic abuse say they still believe cults may have been responsible for the patients' conditions. Gloria Keraga, who worked at Spring Shadows Glen Hospital in the early 1990s, said she isn't sure if patients who testified against her were in a massive, international cult or were victims of isolated incidents of profound abuse. "I don't know if it is a worldwide conspiracy of satanism," [...]
Phillip Cenac, psychiatrist, suspended for “unethical practices”
The Associated Press State & Local Wire April 17, 1999 Hospital suspends executive Dateline: Greensburg, La. St. Helena Parish Hospital has suspended the staff privileges of its chief executive officer who is also a psychiatrist at the hospital, according to a letter signed by the chief of staff. Thursday's action against Dr. Phillip Louis Cenac Jr. applies only to his medical privileges and not to his position as chief executive officer, L.E. Stringer explained in the letter. "This unanimous suspension by the medical staff was based on multiple occurrences of unethical practices of medicine," Stringer wrote. The letter, which became [...]
Michael Menaster, CA psychiatrist, arrested on weapons charges
Los Angeles Times VENTURA COUNTY NEWS SIMI DOCTOR SUSPECTED OF WEAPONS VIOLATIONS By Daniel Yi May 2, 1999 Alerted by an alarmed tipster, Irvine police arrested a Simi Valley psychiatrist Saturday on suspicion of keeping an illegal assault weapon in his car and carrying a pistol to a college class. Dr. Michael Menaster, who is studying for an MBA at UCI's Graduate School of Management, was carrying the loaded semiautomatic pistol and also had two 9mm semiautomatic pistols and an AK-47 assault weapon in his car, said police Sgt. Phil Povey. Police arrested Menaster, 35, without incident near his Toyota [...]
Francisco Borges, Psychiatrist, Charged with Medicaid Fraud
The Associated Press May 7, 1999 Six employees of mental health clinic charged with Medicaid fraud Dateline: Miami Six employees of an outpatient mental health clinic were charged with engaging in an organized scheme to defraud the state out of Medicaid funds. The Florida Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested two owners, an office manager, two counselors and a psychiatrist of the Prometeo Counseling Center, which remained closed Thursday, after an undercover investigation exposed the alleged scheme. An undercover agent, posing as a patient, attended group therapy sessions, which consisted of drinking Cuban coffee, eating white bread, watching television, [...]
UNCOVERED: DOCTOR CAN’T HIDE BEHIND SURGERY
Wisconsin State Journal By Cary Segall This is a case that hinged on circumcision-stantial evidence. A psychiatrist who went to extraordinary lengths to cover up having sex with a patient found his circumcision used against him by the 2nd District Court of Appeals Wednesday. Dr. Francois Saculla had the surgery in March 1991, about a year after his patient told an official at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Center that he had had sex with her. The patient said she had gone to Saculla\'s Racine home three times in late 1989 and once performed oral sex on him. Saculla, 65, [...]