Psych Observer - Exposing Bad Psychiatrists

By Jennifer K. Woldt |of The Northwestern

Prosecutors say they will recommend a former psychiatrist serve time in prison for having inappropriate sexual contact with a patient he was treating.

Charles D. Morgan, 62, of Neenah pleaded no contest two counts of sexual exploitation by a therapist during a plea hearing before Winnebago County Circuit Court Judge Barbara Key Thursday. In exchange for his plea, two counts of third-degree sexual assault will be dismissed.

Morgan, who was practicing with Affinity Behavioral Health at the time of the contact, faces 25 years in prison and $25,000 in fines when he is sentenced Feb. 27. Key ordered a pre-sentence investigation be completed before sentencing.
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A state official says authorities are investigating allegations of two recent rapes at a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas.

Police say they are looking at alleged sex assaults on Nov. 14 and Nov. 21 at the Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital. Authorities aren’t saying whether the assaults were reported to hospital officials, whether there were witnesses, or whether they were stopped by employees.

A former Fremantle psychologist who used bondage and discipline role-playing to treat a 22-year-old bulimic woman has been ordered to see a psychiatrist after arguing he should not face disciplinary proceedings because he had post traumatic stress disorder since being cleared of sexually assaulting the client.

Bruce Alistair Beaton was acquitted last year of unlawful and indecent assault, and aggravated sexual penetration of the young woman, who also claimed the psychologist whipped her with a homemade cat-o’-nine-tails while treating her between January and March 2005.

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Lawrenceville psychiatrist was indicted Friday on charges he sexually assaulted more than a dozen of his female patients.

Dr. Mohammad Uzair Qureshi, 45, was indicted on charges that he sexually assaulted 14 patients who came to him for psychiatric care.

Known as “Dr. Q” to his patients, Qureshi worked at the Gwinnett-Rockdale-Newton Community Service Board. The investigation began in late September after a female patient went to police and said that Qureshi told her to pull up her shirt and fondled her during a consultation. After his arrest more women came forward with the same complaint.

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By Jennifer K. Woldt
of The Northwestern

An Affinity Behavioral Health psychiatrist accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a patient could spend time in prison if convicted of felony charges.

Charles D. Morgan, 62, of Neenah, was charged in Winnebago County Circuit Court Monday with sexual exploitation by a therapist, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of 12 years, six months in prison and $25,000 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint, Morgan sexually assaulted a 27-year-old woman, whom he had been treating for bi-polar disorder for the past two years. The woman told Morgan she wanted a different psychiatrist after he kissed her on two occasions while she was in the hospital receiving treatment.

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BY THE ENQUIRER

A judge has denied a request by a Clifton child psychiatrist to keep his license while he appeals its revocation by the State Medical Board of Ohio.

The board permanently revoked the license of Leo D’Souza, 66, after concluding he had sexual contact with patients, failed to conform to minimal standards of care and violated principles of medical ethics.

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Mex Cooper | june 18, 2008 - 5:35PM

A Melbourne psychiatrist twice banned for making sexual advances on female patients is fighting to regain his medical registration.

Alfred Harold Leitmanis was struck off the medical register in January 2004 after he allegedly told a patient he dreamed of having sex with her and took her to his house where he tried to kiss her.

Dr Leitmanis had told the woman’s GP he believed she suffered from low self-esteem and sought approval through sexual relationships after she was referred to him in April 2002.

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A SOUTHALL psychiatrist who groped a nurse and then kissed a policeman’s boot to beg forgiveness has been struck off for lying to get work.

Dr Idowu Otote, 43, of Rutland Road, was banned for 12 months in 2006 for failing to keep his skills up to scratch.

He then claimed in application forms to Gwent and Maudsley NHS trusts that he would be free to practice again by November 17, 2006.

Dr Otote admitted making two inaccurate job applications, but denied dishonesty on the basis it was all a misunderstanding.

He told the GMC he had sent the applications using a draft model answer to the questions, but forgot to check it before he sent them, but he could not explain why there were still “significant differences” between the two.

Panel Chair Howard Freeman said the GMC had “serious concerns” about the way Dr Otote deliberately misled the two health trusts, and found his fitness to practise was impaired.

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Psychiatrist Engaged In Kissing, Fondling, Masturbation And Oral Sex With Teenage Female Patients In His Vancouver, British Columbia Office.
Source: Citizens Commission on Human Rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – May 19, 2008 – According to Court documents filed in late February, psychiatrist Richard Golden has been ordered to pay more than 150,000 dollars in compensation which is to be shared with two of the three teenage girls who the doctor sexually assaulted during the years from 2000 to 2005.
A fourth complaint of indecent behavior was filed In August last year with the College of Physicians and Surgeons against Dr. Golden. The complaint was also filed with the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a social reform group that investigates and exposes psychiatric violations of human rights. The complaint alleged among other things that Dr. Golden would hug his 18 year old woman patient on many occasions during which time he would have an erection.
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Crossville Chronicle

A Cookeville psychiatrist who had an office in Crossville has been indicted by the Cumberland County Grand Jury on two counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department.

Dr. Chip Hayward Fountain, 44, was indicted by the grand jury on May 6 after “a thorough investigation” by the Department of Children’s Services, District Attorney General’s Office and the sheriff’s department. Fountain surrendered to authorities at the Justice Center on May 27.

A press release states that Fountain, who in addition to Cookeville and Crossville, had an office in Livingston, is accused of “being sexually involved with a former juvenile female patient.”

Bond was set at $15,000 and Fountain is scheduled to appear for arraignment in Cumberland County Criminal Court on June 2, according to Investigator Jeff Slayton’s release.

Fountain graduated from Texas Tech University Health Service Center School for Medicine in the late 1990s.

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