Psychiatrist Stripped Of License To Practice: Called A Sexual Predator

Ordinary citizens would be charged: Why not psychiatrists? This question is being asked by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), who want criminal charges laid against psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Golden, and are insisting too that Golden be placed on the sexual offenders registry to protect society’s children from harm.
 
Child psychiatrist, Dr. Golden, was stripped of his license to practice and labeled a sexual predator by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia last week after finding him guilty of sexual relations with three young female patients between 2000 and 2005. 

The psychiatrist engaged in kissing, fondling, masturbation and oral sex with one female patient in his office.

In another case, Golden asked one of his child victims if she was a virgin, asked her about her underwear, and wanted to know how often she had sex.

In February, this year, Dr. Larry Anderson, a Penticton psychiatrist was sentenced to 18 months in jail for sexually assaulting female patients under his care. The charges involved three former patients with whom he had sexual intercourse, in separate relationships from the late 1970s until 1999.

According to evidence given during the Anderson trial, the Doctor once put sexual instructions on what a female patient thought was a prescription for anti-depressant drugs. The prescription read: Take one erection and put it in an appropriate space. Do what is needed to obtain satisfaction.

The complaint process carried out by various medical boards and colleges have been thwarted, in part, by the belief that psychiatrists are somehow above the law and beyond reproach. However, evidence indicates that women are at very great risk of being sexually assaulted while in a psychiatrist's office.

Studies show that between 6% and 13% of psychiatrists and psychologists sexually abuse their patients and, according to one American Journal of Psychiatry study, 80% of psychiatrists reporting sexual contact with an average of six patients.

A recent Google search, reveled that more than 60 psychiatrists world wide have either been criminally convicted or lost their license to practice due to sexual relations with patients over the past year and a half.           

Brian Beaumont, spokesperson for the British Columbia chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), said “Psychiatric sexual assault is a very common occurrence over the world, but all too often the perpetrator is only slapped on the wrist by being given a fine or suspension from practice for these criminal activities”.                        

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established by the Church of Scientology to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

If you know anyone, including a child, who has been abused or harmed by a psychiatrist call The Citizens Commission on Human Rights at 1-800-670-2247. Complete confidentiality assured.