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RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Rape is rape. It is especially grave if a psychiatrist or other mental health
practitioner perpetrates it. Criminal codes must state that just the fact of
a sexual act between any therapist and patient is �felony rape� with the same
penalties as any other rape. �Consent� by the patient is not a defense.
2. All professional licensing boards for psychiatrists, psychologists or psychotherapists,
should refer copies of all patient complaints about sexual abuse to the police,
attorney general or prosecutor who are obligated to investigate and prosecute.
3. Any such professional licensing board that treats such sexual abuse of patients
as �professional misconduct� should be held accountable for any future
sexual crime committed by the therapist.
4. Any proven complaint of sexual abuse of a patient should also be reported
to health care fraud investigators to determine if the convicted felon
had also committed fraud by billing his or her sexual sessions as therapy.
A criminal conviction of a psychiatrist or psychologist for a sex crime should
also result in the permanent revocation of his or her license to practice.
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