Post by BrittanyFour young patients said he sexually molested them
A Cincinnati child psychiatrist who is facing sex crime charges lost
his medical license this week.
The Ohio Medical Board permanently revoked the license of Leo D’Souza
after reviewing a 50-page report on the accusations that several
former patients made against him. For more go tohttp://badpsych.com/2008/05/16/psychiatrist-loses-medical-license/
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Too much bad entheta today?
Here is another downstat for ya!
CIENTOLOGY SEX ASSAULT NIGHTMARE
By PHILIP RECCHIAA
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October 2, 2005 -- A FORMER Scientology staffer is breaking her
silence about being sexually assaulted 100 times at ages 16 and 17 by
the church supervisor she was "ordered" to live with, and then
receiving threats and intimidating phone calls when she reported the
abuse. Five years ago, Gabriel Williams, then a 27-year-old chief
supervisor at the Church of Scientology in Mountain View, Calif.,
forced then-16-year-old Jennifer Stewart to have intercourse with him
on the first evening she moved in, according to her statements in
court records.
After Williams was charged with rape and sodomy with a minor - and
later convicted of sexual battery and sodomy - Stewart's family
endured death threats, stalkers and other harassment.
"We want the world to know that when Tom Cruise calls psychiatry a
'pseudoscience,' it's all part of Scientology's plan to brainwash
people," said Stewart's husband, Tom Gorman, referring to the actor's
"Today" show interview in June.
Stewart believed that if she went to the police, she would not be able
to avoid being sent to a psychiatrist. According to Scientology,
psychiatry is a source of evil. Members who see "psychs" or take
psychiatric drugs will be declared "SP" - "suppressive person" - and
can't achieve spiritual freedom.
In a related civil suit brought by Stewart against Williams and the
church, she recently received as part of the settlement a "generous
monetary resolution," said her attorney. Although the church admitted
no wrongdoing, it forked over about $700,000, sources say.
Stewart's ordeal began in 2000, when she became a supervisor under
Williams at the church in the San Francisco area, where she and Gorman
were raised as Scientologists. She had come to know Williams as
someone who made "lots of overt sexual comments" about women, she
says.
Still, she was told by a senior church staffer that the church had
"ordered her" to work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and to live with Williams
and his fianc=E9e at their San Jose flat, which was closer to the
church than her home, making carpooling easier, she says.
"At the time, Williams was a highly regarded member of the church, so
the arrangement seemed safe," said her father, Michael Stewart.
According to court documents, the church said it "refutes any 'order'
by management instructing the victim to stay with" Williams.
After Williams assaulted Stewart the first night, he did so again the
next, telling her, "I'll kill you if you say anything," according to
the police report.
"Williams told me everything that was happening was my fault because
I'd been evil in a past life," said Stewart. "If I told anyone, I'd be
sent to a psych and be taken away from my family."
Only after Gorman became suspicious of bruises on Stewart's body in
May 2001 did she admit what Williams had been doing, he said.
THE next day, Gorman and Stewart told Stewart's father. Michael
Stewart took his family out of the church and hid his daughter. A few
days later, he told church authorities what Williams had done.
"A deputy special affairs officer told me not to go to the police,"
said the elder Stewart. "If we did, we'd lose Jennifer to child
services."
"The church had no knowledge of the relationship between Williams and
Stewart, and upon learning of the allegations and determining that
Gabe and Jennifer were indeed having a relationship, Gabe was
immediately fired," said Jeff Quiros, president of the Church of
Scientology San Francisco.
Quiros sent The Post several testimonials from acquaintances and
colleagues of Stewart and Gorman, which he said would have been
entered as evidence in the criminal proceedings had Williams not
struck a plea deal that settled the case without trial.
Elliot Abelson, an attorney for Quiros' church, emphasized that the
church never knew about Williams' behavior, that Williams was fired
within a day of them finding out about the allegations, and that there
have been no other such cases within the church.
Michael Stewart finally went to the cops on his daughter's 18th
birthday, when the fear of losing her to the state no longer loomed.
More than a year after his last assault on Stewart, Williams was
arrested in Florida in 2002 by a San Jose detective, according to the
DA in the case.
While Williams was waiting for his criminal case to be heard, Stewart,
who married Gorman in 2002 and now lives with his family in San
Francisco, filed a civil suit against him and the church.
That was when the threats began, they say. On one occasion, a man
phoned Gorman's father and said, "SPs don't live long. Your son and
his wife, Jennifer, will be dead soon," according to a police report.
"Who else would use the term 'SP'?" said the younger Gorman. Such
incidents continued up until three months ago, he says.
After doing about eight months in jail, Williams was released last
year. Now on probation, he lives in Clearlake Oaks, Calif., with his
wife and two kids.
"I paid my debt to society in this matter, and I was not found liable
in the civil action," Williams said through his attorney.