SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
“Sexual misconduct is particularly damaging to the reputation of psychiatry because the damages to patients which result are mental and emotional in nature. If psychiatry loses the confidence of society, its ability to pursue its mission will be damaged.”
American Psychiatric Association
Approved by the Board of Trustees
March 1993
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Gregory Wigington, Nebraska Psychiatrist, suspended
Nebraska Examiner Omaha psychiatrist regains medical license, but can’t treat female patients By Paul Hammel November 11, 2022 -- Excerpt LINCOLN — The medical license of an Omaha psychiatrist has been reinstated — with the condition that he not treat any female patients. The license of Dr. Gregory Wigington was suspended for six months beginning in April for unprofessional conduct after he admitted having sexual relations with two female patients, including one woman he eventually married. An investigation by the Nebraska Attorney General’s Office and State Department of Health and Human Services also found that he had sent an [...]
Ramendra Kumar Singha, Bangladesh Psychiatrist, jailed
Ramendra Kumar Singha The Daily Star Crime & Justice Psychiatrist sent to jail on charges of raping patient Our Correspondent, Sylhet October 19, 2022 -- Excerpt The head of the psychiatry at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital was sent to jail on Monday on charges of raping a patient. Associate Professor Ramendra Kumar Singha was arrested at his private chamber at Labaid Diagnostic Centre in Sylhet city on Sunday night. A woman, who has been a patient of his since 2018, accused him of raping her and making false promises of marriage, said Ali Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Kotwali [...]
Bernard Calamy, Parisian psychiatrist, sentenced
Bernard Calamy Google translation Midi Libre Montpellier: twelve years in prison for the former psychiatrist who raped girls in the Gard September 10, 2022 -- Excerpt Bernard Calamy, 84, retired in Sauve, was declared guilty by the jurors of Hérault on Friday, after his appeal trial, where he had been sentenced to 13 years in prison, was broken in Avignon. His denials and his wavering memory will not have been enough. The Assize Court of Hérault sentenced Friday, September 9 a former Parisian psychiatrist, having retired in the Cévennes, to twelve years of criminal imprisonment for the rapes committed [...]
Thomas Gratzer, Twin Cities psychiatrist, charged
Thomas Gratzer Alpha News Former MPD psychological evaluator charged with sexual assault of minor By Crime Watch MN September 7, 2022 -- Excerpt A Twin Cities psychiatrist who formerly served as a mental fitness evaluator for the Minneapolis Police Department has been charged with criminal sexual conduct involving a minor. Dr. Thomas Gabor Gratzer, 57, of Edina, is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor child who was known to him. The female victim, who is now an adult, told an investigator with the Edina Police Department that she’d been sexually assaulted multiple times by Gratzer starting [...]
Ricardo Cruciani, exploited his training as a psychiatrist
Ricardo Cruciani LawandCrime.com New York Jury Convicts Neurologist on a Dozen Counts for Raping and Sexually Assaulting Six of His Patients --Excerpt ...Ricardo Cruciani, 68, has now stands convicted on a dozen charges, including a count of predatory sexual assault, one count of attempted rape in the first degree, one count of sexual abuse in the first degree, two counts of rape in the third degree, and seven counts of criminal sexual act in the third degree. His sentencing has been scheduled for Sept. 14. The predatory sexual assault charge is itself punishable by up to life in prison... Between [...]
Psychiatrist Chan Herng Nieng, Singapore
Singapore Psychiatrist Chan Herng Nieng Today 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned': Woman loses negligence lawsuit against psychiatrist ex-lover By Louisa Tang July 19, 2022 -- Excerpt SINGAPORE — A woman who had an extramarital affair with her psychiatrist has failed in her lawsuit against him, after she sued him for negligence for allegedly getting her hooked on pills to manage her anxiety. High Court judge Tan Siong Thye on Tuesday (July 19) described Ms Serene Tiong Sze Yin’s lawsuit as her “latest episode in her plot for revenge” against Dr Chan Herng Nieng... Despite ruling in Dr [...]
Chris Warner, Army Psychiatrist, accused of rape
Chris Warner Stars and Stripes Army colonel accused of rape avoids court-martial, still faces forced retirement nearly a year later By Rose L. Thayer July 14, 2022 -- Excerpt Nearly 10 months after an Army officer faced an administrative hearing for allegations that he raped his children’s live-in nanny more than a decade ago, he remains in the service working at the Army Surgeon General’s Office, according to service officials. Col. Chris Warner, 48, is a psychiatrist who is no longer seeing patients and has no leadership role as he awaits a final approval to remove him from the Army [...]
Patricia Boyer, Charlotte psychiatrist – license revoked
Patricia Boyer Charlotte Observer (North Carolina) Charlotte psychiatrist loses NC medical license after having affair with a patient By Michael Gordon May 26, 2022 -- Excerpt A veteran Charlotte psychiatrist lost her state medical license this week after having a lengthy affair with a patient whom she informally kept treating and medicating with no documentation. The N.C. Medical Board revoked the license of Dr. Patricia Boyer on Monday after finding that she violated professional standards by having an intimate relationship with a current or former patient... After several years of treatment that showed "a lack of therapeutic progress," Boyer discussed [...]