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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William Ellien, Savannah Psychiatrist, sentenced to prison
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of Georgia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, May 24, 2013 Savannah Doctor Sentenced To 30 Months In Pills For Sex Scheme SAVANNAH , GA: WILLIAM ELLIEN, 57, of Savannah, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr., to 30 months in prison for exchanging prescriptions for highly addictive drugs in exchange for sex. Ellien was also sentenced to serve 3 years of supervised release upon his release from prison and ordered to surrender all of his medical licenses. According to the evidence presented during the [...]
Abdullahi Mohamed, Michigan Psychiatrist, Sentenced
The Monroe Evening News (Michigan) Doctor sentenced in sexual assaults --Excerpt …Dr. Abdullahi A. Mohamed, 58, will spend the next year in jail after he was sentenced by Monroe County Circuit Judge Michael A. Weipert. In addition to imprisonment, Judge Weipert sentenced Dr. Mohamed to five years of probation and ordered that he no longer can practice medicine. The defendant also must stay away from the victims. In January, Dr. Mohamed, whose license remains active through 2015 according to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, pleaded no contest to three counts of criminal sexual conduct-fourth degree involving [...]
Richard Pines, Boise Psychiatrist, Arrested
KTVB Former Boise doctor arrested for sex crimes involving children after multi-year investigation --Excerpt BOISE, Idaho — A Boise man and former adolescent psychiatrist is facing three felony counts of lewd conduct with a child under 16 after he was arrested Friday by multiple agencies. Boise Police said 63-year-old Richard Pines was arrested following "years of investigating" crimes in Ada County and Boise County. The crimes occurred against three minors in Boise County between 2004 and 2008, according to Friday's release. The Associated Press in 2015 reported the Idaho Supreme Court ruled Pines "violated state law by having improper [...]
Kevin George, Colonie psychiatrist, Arrested
Kevin George New Haven Register Psychiatrist faces sex counts --Excerpt COLONIE — A Colonie psychiatrist was arrested Friday and charged with inappropriately touching two female employees. Dr. Kevin W. George, 52, of Psychopharmacology Consultants of Albany, was charged with two counts of sexual abuse and two counts of forcible touching, all misdemeanors. "He presented himself to them in a sexual manner, touching both of them as well as rubbing himself against them in a sexual way," said. Lt. Robert Winn, spokesman for Colonie Police. George specializes in prescribing medication to adults and adolescents with mental health problems... Excerpted from: Psychiatrist [...]
Stephen Melcher, Sacramento psychiatrist, sentenced
Sacramento Business Journal Sex conviction for leading doctor --Excerpt Dr. Stephen Melcher, a former South Sacramento psychiatrist with Kaiser Permanente and former president of the Sacramento-Sierra Valley Medical Society, has been sentenced to 365 days in jail following conviction for a felony sexual act with a minor. He is currently in custody, said Shelly Orio, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento County District Attorney. Melcher was arrested in December and pleaded no contest April 3 to a lewd and lascivious act upon a child under the age of 14. He was sentenced on Friday. The charge [...]
James Peak, Montana Psychiatrist, sentenced
James Peak THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE MONTANA Press Release James H. Peak Sentenced in U.S. District Court FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, December 07, 2011 The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on December 7, 2011, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, JAMES H. PEAK, a 49-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. PEAK was sentenced to a term of: Prison: 12 months and 1 day Special Assessment: $100 Supervised Release: life PEAK was sentenced in connection with his guilty plea to possession of child pornography. In an Offer of Proof [...]
Kissimmee Psychiatrist Ramarao Makkena, arrested in Sex Sting
Kissimmee Psychiatrist Ramarao Makkena Orlando Sentinel Kissimmee fraud, sex stings lead to arrests --Excerpt A local psychiatrist was arrested along with more than a dozen others in an Internet sex sting run by Kissimmee police last week, records show. Dr. Ramaro Makkena, who has a child-and-adolescent practice on West Vine Street, was arrested Friday on prostitution-related charges after entering a decoy house set up for the week-long investigation, according to police. Dr. Makkena, who charged with assignation of prostitution and entering a dwelling for prostitution, was released Friday on $500 bail from the Osceola County Jail. He could not be [...]
Vladimir Rajkovic, Zimbabwe psychiatrist, arrested
Vladimir Rajkovic NewsDay ‘Psychiatrist wanted woman to have sex with dog’ By The NewsDay June 30, 2011 -- Excerpt A psychiatric doctor, Vladimir Rajkovic, may well require mental examination himself after he was hauled before the courts for allegedly inserting an artificial manhood into a woman’s private parts before trying to force her into bestiality. He also allegedly took pictures of the woman in the nude before threatening her with a gun after she refused to engage in the act. The incident which is likely to shock some ladies of the night is said to have occurred on June 7 [...]