A REPORT OF ABUSE Sexual Predators

In recent years, more and more cases of psychiatric rape have come to light, including:

On February 11, 1998, Missouri psychiatrist William Cone was sentenced to 133 years in prison for sexual and deviate sexual assault of two patients. Cone told the women they had been weaned too early and needed to be �re-parented,� which required having sex with him. To convince them, he gave them large amounts of psychotropic drugs to which they became addicted. Cone claimed that he himself suffered from �alcoholism and sexual dependency� � a �form of moral insanity brought on by my obsessive preoccupation with work, power and perfection. �� On the contrary, the prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General David Cosgrove, told the court: �He is a predator. � These people came to him for healing and he injured them. I�ve never had a defendant inflict so much pain and so much injury on so many people. There�s a message that needs to be sent to this defendant and everyone else in his shoes.�

In 2004, Canadian psychiatrist John Orpin�s 1998 conviction for sexually abusing female patients was upheld. While the women were drugged, he raped and sodomized them. Some were shackled to a wall and beaten with a belt. Dr. Orpin told them that his penis was a �healing staff� and that anal rape was �unconditional love.� He pleaded guilty to assault and sexual assault of two women.

On July 4, 2002, London psychiatrist Kolathur Unni was jailed for only 18 months despite sexually attacking a female patient during a hypnotherapy session. Unni had a history of sexual assaults on patients and had been struck off the medical register in New Zealand for similar incidents.

On December 10, 2002, U.K. psychiatrist Christopher Allison was jailed for 10 years for the rape and sexual abuse of six patients.

Thanks to the courage and determination of the brave women who exposed these cases � often despite great personal danger and emotional anguish � some of the perpetrators of these criminal acts were brought to justice.

However, in many cases the wheels of justice turned too slowly, and too many of the 65,000 therapists who raped their patients were only suspended from practicing (while remaining free) or simply ordered to undergo �therapy� for their own sexual �disorder.�

William Masters� and Virginia Johnson�s 1970 report, �Human Sexual Inadequacy,� still holds true: ��when sexual seduction of patients can be firmly established by due legal process, regardless of whether the seduction was initiated by the patient or the rapist, the therapist should be sued for rape rather than malpractice, i.e., the legal process should be criminal rather than civil.�

�He is a predator�. These people came to him for healing and he injured them. I�ve never had a defendant inflict so much pain and so much injury on so many people.�
� Assistant Attorney General David Cosgrove on psychiatrist William Cone, sentenced to 133 years in jail for patient sexual assault.

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