Sexual Abuse by Mental Healthcare Professionals is Worse Than in the Catholic Church

You can find everything in the Mental Health field. You can find fraud, lies, deceit, sexual depravity and coverups. You can find everything, perhaps, except Mental Health.

It would seem clear that in a profession where at least 25% (in England) of Mental Healthcare Professions would admit to having sexual contact with their clients and patients has some serious problems with credibility. Many abusive practitioners attempt to hide behind the term consenting adults, or even attempt to portray their sexual abuse as therapeutic. Many of you will remember how a California psychologist destroyed an order of California IHM Nuns, who irresponsibly encouraged them to explore themselves sexually by abandoning all of their "repressive" ideas.

Despite the obvious problems with Psychologists, who generally lack a coherent moral system and often reject such things as nonsensical, many anti-Catholic bigots would prefer to hold the Catholic Church exclusively responsible for the sexual abuse of minors, despite the epidemic level of dishonesty, corruption, sexual abuse and coverup in the Mental Healthcare Profession.

We've always argued that sexual abuse is generally perpetrated by people with a progressive ideological persuasion, they are materialists and therefore are unwilling to admit the objectivity of absolute moral imperatives as handed down to the Jews in Sinai in the form of the Decalogue (The 10 Commandments). Undoubtedly, if you regard these things as legendary fairytales, you're very likely to also go your own way when you think no one's looking, and even transgress the clear ethical directives of your own field, as many psychiatrists and psychologists do. They don't fear God or His laws. So, those priests who also are guilty of these crimes are of the same persuasion and in counseling those who come to them for help, often go by the same materialist assumptions, and use the same tactics as Mental Healthcare Professionals.

Despite the fact that there are all too many Catholic Priests who are infected with a materialist point of view, eager to reduce the Church to a merely man-made institution, we'd still submit that people are more safe in the confines of the present institutions of the Catholic Church, as bad as they are throughout the world, than in the hands of a profession containing a group of men and women who will admit that they engage in sexual contact with their patients at a rate from 10%-25%. [Psychiatric Rape: Assaulting Women and Children] here:

* A woman is statistically at greater risk of being raped while on a psychiatrist’s couch than while jogging alone at night through a city park.
* In a British study of therapist-patient sexual contact among psychologists, 25 percent reported having treated a patient who had been sexually involved with another therapist. [Of that number, 1 in 20 were children, and this was admitted]
* A 2001 study reported that one out of twenty clients who had been sexually abused by their therapist was a minor, the average age being 7 for girls and 12 for boys. The youngest child was three.

Sexual Abuse by Healthcare Professionals, pdf file, here.

Here's a list of links with various news stories related to sexual abuse by Healthcare Professionals related to abuse of children or vulnerable adults:

A child psychologist at a Long Island preschool admitted yesterday that he paid for kiddie porn and stored it on his home and office computers, authorities said.
Peter Mies, 57, of Northport was arrested and promptly pleaded guilty to child-porn possession as part of a prearranged deal with prosecutors, read more.

MIDDLETOWN -- — A 63-year-old former Bristol school psychologist pleaded guilty Monday to sexually abusing a female resident of a Clinton group home where he worked part time.

James Sullivan made the third-degree sexual assault plea before Middlesex Superior Court Judge Robert L. Holzberg. He faces a minimum of nine months and a maximum of two years in prison based on recommendations agreed to by his attorney, a state prosecutor and Holzberg. Sullivan is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 6 after a pre-sentence inquiry by a state probation officer.

Sullivan was accused of sexually assaulting the 45-year-old woman in her room in July 2000, at a time that he was the only staff member on duty. Police said the charges were based on forensic evidence found at the scene and interviews with the woman and staff at the home, which they declined to identify to protect the woman's identity. Staff members reported the woman's complaints the day after the incident, police said, and Sullivan was immediately suspended from his job. Read further...

TROY -- A 32-year-old psychologist Wednesday pleaded not guilty this morning to felony charges of raping a 14-year-old Tamarac High School freshman on days she was counseling him.

Jennifer A. Hastings of Sand Lake was arraigned before Judge Patrick McGrath. She and her attorney, Steven Coffey, did not comment after the court appearance. Hastings, who quit her $52,426-a-year job as a court-assigned counselor for the teenager, is free on bail.

Last Friday she was indicted by a Rensselaer County grand jury on second-degree rape and criminal sex act felony charges and endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree sexual abuse misdemeanors. Police said the relationship turned sexual during September and October last year. Trysts allegedly occurred at the Brunswick school, in a parking lot across Route 2 from the school, in Schodack and Colonie motels and at Hastings' Sheer Road home.
Read further...

Psychologist has computer with porn, 51, Moorehead City, exploiting children, read further.

Psychologist gives an emotionally vulnerable 19 year old female enough Oxycodone to kill herself, here.

Psychologists covering up for molester colleague, on-line forum, here

Aug. 2--The Livonia child psychologist accused of setting up a sexual rendezvous near Atlanta with an 11-year-old girl whose mom he met on the Internet has pleaded guilty. The mom was an undercover agent. Charles Bruce Fraelich, 58, is scheduled for sentencing Sept. 27 in an Atlanta federal court. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a fine of up to $500,000. He was charged with one count of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of using the Internet to attempt to coerce and entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. He entered his plea July 20. His attorney Paul Kish would not comment on the case Tuesday. Fraelich is... read further...

[True Crime] Claude Foulk was executive director of the Napa State Hospital in
California, a mental institution that dealt with insane and sexually
violent criminals. He oversaw 2,300 employees and 1,200 patients --
while being a sexual predator himself, read further...

[Huffington Post] LOS ANGELES — The executive director of a Northern California mental hospital was arrested Wednesday for investigation of molesting his foster child for more than a decade.

Napa State Hospital Director Claude Edward Foulk, 62, was arrested at the hospital after a five-month investigation by Long Beach police.

The hospital fired him after he was charged Tuesday with 35 felony counts, punishable by up to 280 years in prison, read further...

[the age]A psychologist is believed to be the first Victorian to plead guilty to downloading child pornography, following a a nationwide police swoop earlier this year.

James Anton Provan, 38, is charged with one count of possessing child pornography after 114 sexually explicit images were found on a computer at his home.

Provan used a credit card to access three child pornography websites and was detected by an investigation involving US authorities, federal and Victorian police, the Heidelberg Magistrates Court heard read further...

[August 27, 2009] VICTORVILLE - A terrible story of child abuse in San Bernardino County where a former school psychologist has been found guilty of sexually and physically abusing his son over 18 years.

A jury Wednesday convicted 47-year old Richard J. Swank of a dozen felony counts, read further.

[Psychcrime] The February 24th arrest of Claude E. Foulk, [listed already above] the (former) executive director of California’s Napa State Psychiatric Hospital on 35 felony counts of molestation involving a former foster child is, on its own, shocking. However, this kind of conduct by psychiatric and mental health “professionals” is, unfortunately, rather common. Here is a partial list of some of the more notable such cases:

On December 13, 2001, Indiana elementary school psychologist Stephen T. Serino was found guilty of 26 counts of child molestation and was later sentenced to 90 years in prison. He had molested the son of a family friend 15 times over two years, beginning when the boy was 11 years old, while acting like “a father figure to the boy.” Serino, who conducted psychological assessments in several school districts, was concurrently prosecuted in a neighboring county for sex acts with two minors, one of whom was a student he had assessed and later took the troubled student to his home, where he violated him. He was sentenced in September 2002 to 140 years prison. Hendricks County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Stephanie LeMay-Luken, referring to his first sentence, said, “I can guarantee that when he is released, if he is alive, he will commit the offense again. He is a serial pedophile.”

Source: “Molester’s term in prison reduced,” The Indianapolis Star, November 21, 2003 and “Man found guilty on child sex charges,” The Indianapolis Star, August 24, 2002 and “Serino receives 385 years in prison, Linton Daily Citizen, December 28, 2001.

Alan J. Horowitz: On July 27, 1992 New Jersey psychiatrist Alan J. Horowitz was criminally convicted of sexually abusing an 9-year-old boy who had been his patient and given a sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison. In addition to this case there were also charges that he sodomized three boys and sexually abused a girl between the years of 1990 and 1991. Horowitz had been convicted of sexual abuse once before in Maryland in 1983 for sexually molesting two brothers, aged 8 and 12. He was given a five-year suspended sentence on that case. A review of Horowitz’s background revealed that he had a 20 year history of sexual abuse incidents with young patients starting as far back as 1971 while a young medical resident at Duke University. Horowitz tried to justify his crimes by stating that he was a “normal pedophile” and that he had not used force on the children.


In September 1998 Michigan psychologist Stephen Viola, pleaded guilty to sexually touching two young boys he was counseling. The circuit judge sentenced Viola to six months jail, telling him he should have followed the first rule of the Hippocratic Oath, which states, “First, do no harm.” His license was also revoked and he was prevented from reapplying for it for three years. As required by his plea, Viola also registered himself with Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry.

Source: Jessie Halladay, “Psychologist sentenced in sex case,” Times Herald, 5 September 1998.

William Lee Fuchs, a North Carolina psychologist was sentenced in August 1995 to 21 years prison for 49 sex crimes involving children. One patient, who as a boy had been sent to Fuchs for counseling when his parents were going through a divorce, testified that at his second session with Fuchs, he broke down sobbing about his family situation. “He (Fuchs) began to hug me, caress me a man would a woman. He began to kiss my face and lips.” After that, he began to perform “oral sex on me.”

Source: Andrea E. Ashby, “Victim, dad of victim testify,” Daily Herald, August 7, 1995.

California psychiatrist James H. White was criminally convicted of drugging a male patient until he was unconscious then sexually molesting him and sentenced to nearly seven years in prison. Police discovered pictures and a videotape of the sexual molestation. White was released on bail pending his criminal trial when he fled the country. He was later captured in Texas with a 15-year-old boy. During the criminal trial yet another man came forward with allegations that White had adopted him out of a mental institution when he was 16 years old and then proceeded to sexually abuse him for nearly 20 years.

Source: “Doctor sentenced in sex case,” Star Free Press, January 10, 1991; Jim Carlton and John Hurst, “Camp’s Psychiatrist Held in Sex Inquiry,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1990.

Psychologist Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, who worked under contract for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for 17 years and was a recognized adoption expert, was convicted on charges of sexually molesting his foster son for six years, starting the first day that the Department of Children and Family Services placed the then 8-year-old boy in Bourguignon’s home. He fled the U.S. prior to trial and was sentenced June 30, 1993 in absentia to 36 years prison. He was extradited back to the U.S. from Tunisia in 2004 to serve his sentence.

Source: “Counselor sentenced for foster son abuse,” Chicago Tribune, July 1, 1993 and “Hearing set for convicted child abuser,” Pioneer Press, January 29, 2004.

Robert Bruce Craft, a Georgia psychologist under contract to the state’s Department of Children and Family Services was sentenced to 20 years in prison in May, 2000, having been convicted of 99 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, 15 counts of felony child molestation and three counts misdemeanor sexual exploitation of a child. Craft was found to possess over 600 photos he had taken of children exposing their genitals. Twelve of his photographic subjects were children that were referred to him for treatment by the DCF. Though the Court of Appeals reversed 71 of the sexual exploitation convictions, they did not reduce the 20-year sentence.

Source: “Psychologist Convicted in Child Cases,” Fulton County Daily Report, March 27, 2000 and “Judge finds psychologist guilty jurist rules after defense declines to call witnesses in child sexual exploitation case,” The Augusta Chronicle, March 24, 2000.

On July 23, 1999 California psychiatrist Burnell G. Forgey pleaded guilty to five counts of molesting a teenage boy who was his patient. Forgey spent over a year in jail and surrendered his medical license. Forgey worked as a psychiatrist for troubled youth group homes and was arrested after police discovered that he and a registered sex offender named James Lee Crummel had drugged and forced a teenage patient to have sex with them on numerous occasions. Crummel had met Forgey when he was getting therapy from him and had been hired by Forgey to be his assistant. Forgey not only committed sex crimes himself but allowed a dangerous sex offender – with a rap sheet spanning decades of sexual assaults and murder against children – access to numerous vulnerable children and teenagers as he took Crummel along when he saw patients and allowed him unsupervised access to the children.

Source: Thao Hua, “Arraignment Postponed for Ex-psychiatrist,” Los Angeles Times, May 7,1998; Thao Hua and Scott Martelle, “Other Possible Molest Victims of Psychiatrist Are Being Sought,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1998; “Crummel,” City News Service, Sept. 17, 1999; John McDonald, “Doctor Sentenced in molestation,” The Orange County Register, July 24, 1999.

Psychologist Stephen Andrew Gilmore was sentenced March 9, 2004 to nine months jail and ordered to pay restitution of $10,000 to the victim, a girl he admitted sexually abusing, beginning when she was seven years old. Gilmore had been in a relationship with the girl’s mother from 1990 to 1993, living with them in Christchurch, New Zealand. Gilmore would get the seven-year-old to walk on his back for the purpose of massage and, after one such occasion, asked her to masturbate him, showing her how when she expressed reluctance. The judge revealed that the girl “became shut-down and reclusive” and began to had suicidal thoughts by age 12.

Source: “Psychologist jailed for abusing child,” New Zealand Herald, March 9, 2004.

On August 24, 2006, Texas child psychiatrist Donald Hughes entered a plea of guilty to charges of indecency involving young patients. Hughes is expected to receive five years in prison for each of three counts as part of a plea bargain. Hughes was first arrested April 22, 2004, and charged with two counts of indecency with a child after two patients alleged that he fondled them in April 2003. A third victim came forward later, after his mother read a news article about the first two allegations. He was sentenced September 5, 2006 to three five-year prison sentences.

Source: “Child psychiatrist gets prison terms,” Star-Telegram, September 6, 2006 and “Child psychiatrist enters guilty plea,” Star-Telegram, August 24, 2006.

On February 3, 2010, The Texas Medical Board indefinitely suspended child psychiatrist William Olmstead for failure to comply with terms of his Board-ordered probation, which required, among other things, that he submit to a psychiatric evaluation. Olmstead pleaded no contest in January 2009 to indecency with a child and was sentenced to six years deferred adjudication (meaning if he complied with terms of his criminal probation—which is unrelated to the probation of his license by the medical board—then the conviction would removed from his record). He was also placed on the sex offender registry. According to reports, he was charged after a young girl who lived next door said he’d molested her.

Source: “Board suspends medical license of child psychiatrist who is registered sex offender,” Dallas Morning News, February 4, 2010. Source, here for psychcrime.