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Star Pediatrician Fights Accusations of Sex Abuse
August 6, 2008 - By LESLIE KAUFMAN - National Desk - 2498 Words
Famous for treating learning problems, Dr. Melvin D. Levine has a 20-year history of allegations with little investigation.
Suit Accuses Pediatrician of Abuse
April 8, 2008 - By ABBY GOODNOUGH - National Desk - 467 Words
Dr. Mel Levine, a prominent pediatrician and best-selling author, is facing allegations that he sexually abused young patients in Boston in the 1980s.
Psychiatric Center for Teenagers Is Mired in Patient Accusations of Rape
August 6, 2007 - By ROBERT D. McFADDEN - Metropolitan Desk - 747 Words
A Manhattan psychiatric treatment center said that it was cooperating with authorities who have charged former employees with sexually assaulting girls at the center.
Debate on Child Pornography’s Link to Molesting
July 19, 2007 - By JULIAN SHER and BENEDICT CAREY - National Desk - 1458 Words
A report on Internet child-pornography offenders suggests that the proportion who molest children is very high.
Degree of Suffering Is Questioned in Abuse Suit
May 3, 2007 - By BRUCE LAMBERT - Metropolitan Desk - 743 Words
A psychiatrist hired by the Roman Catholic diocese on Long Island testified hat two sexual abuse victims exaggerated their emotional suffering.
Child Psychiatrist Is Accused of Molesting 3 Former Patients
April 7, 2007 - By JESSE McKINLEY - National Desk - 680 Words
The psychiatrist, Dr. William H. Ayres, was taken into custody at his home in San Mateo, Calif., after a lengthy police investigation prompted by a civil suit over sexual abuse.
The Good Daughter, in a Brothel
December 17, 2006 - By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - Editorial Desk - 748 Words
In poor countries where sex trafficking and globalization have fostered new forms of slavery, stories like Yan Kosal’s are still wrenchingly common.
A Question of Resilience
April 30, 2006 - By Emily BazelonI - Magazine - 4941 Words
Why are certain children able to cope with sexual abuse while most others fall apart? Researchers are looking hard at a gene and exploring a new paradigm.
A CONVERSATION WITH: RICHARD GARTNER
Beyond the Bounds of Betrayal: Men Cope With Being the Victims
March 1, 2005 - By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - Health & Fitness - 1308 Words
For the past 25 years, Dr. Richard B. Gartner has been developing therapies and treating men who suffered sexual abuse during childhood.
Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex
November 9, 2004 - By BENEDICT CAREY - Science Desk - 2517 Words
Scientists say one thing has remained constant since Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's work: Americans' ambivalence about the study of sexuality.
Metro Briefing New York: White Plains: Guilty Plea In Patient's Assault
August 18, 2004 - By Lisa Foderaro (NYT) - Metropolitan Desk - 179 Words
A woman pleaded guilty yesterday to sexual abuse of a 15-year-old fellow patient in a Westchester psychiatric hospital, according to the Westchester County district attorney, Jeanine F. Pirro. Prosecutors said that last August, the woman, Wanda Green, 18, of Yonkers, and another roommate subjected their 15-year-old roommate to forcible sexual contact for hours at St. Vincent's Westchester Hospital in Harrison. The victim, who has severe developmental disabilities, was spending her first night away from her parents. Mrs. Pirro said the plea was accepted to spare the victim and her family the trauma of reliving the crime in court. Ms. Green is to be sentenced Nov. 1 for the crime, a felony punishable by up to seven years in state prison. The other roommate, 15, pleaded guilty earlier. Lisa Foderaro (NYT)
Race, Stigma and Silence
August 17, 2004 - By John Langone - Health & Fitness - 699 Words
Two new books break longstanding silences about two problems as they affect African-Americans.
Patient-Abuse Charges Under Investigation
May 22, 2004 - By THOMAS CRAMPTON - Metropolitan Desk - 631 Words
WHITE PLAINS, May 21 - State health officials and the local police are investigating accusations that patients undergoing psychiatric or substance-abuse treatment at St. Vincent's Westchester Hospital in Harrison have been sexually abused or beaten by other patients, officials said on Friday.
Bishops' Leader Resists Releasing Priest's Records in His Own Diocese
May 2, 2004 - By LAURIE GOODSTEIN - National Desk - 827 Words
The diocese led by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been held in contempt of court.
Abused Boy Spurs Advocate to Sue State
December 19, 2003 - By STACEY STOWE - Metropolitan Desk - 370 Words
HARTFORD, Dec. 18 Connecticuts child advocate, in the first lawsuit she has filed since being appointed in 2000, sued the states child welfare agency this week, saying it mishandled a boy who was sexually abused as a young child and spent a third of his life shuttled between programs that never helped him.
Prosecutor Says Man Visited Pedophile Resort
September 24, 2003 - By SUSAN SAULNY - Metropolitan Desk - 473 Words
A former Brooklyn pediatrician took beach vacations to Mexico and Central America not to enjoy sun and sand, but rather to have sex with young boys at a resort for pedophiles, a federal prosecutor told a Manhattan jury yesterday as the mans trial began.
Church in Boston to Pay $85 Million in Abuse Lawsuits
September 10, 2003 - By FOX BUTTERFIELD - National Desk - 1599 Words
The settlement is the largest ever by an American diocese to resolve accusations of sexual abuse involving members of the clergy.
Inmate in Priest Killing Has History of Emotional Problems
August 28, 2003 - By FOX BUTTERFIELD - National Desk - 1028 Words
The inmate accused of strangling John J. Geoghan, the former priest who was a pedophile, was a "highly aggressive," emotionally disturbed child.
After Sex Abuse Cases, Counselors Offer Advice To Parents
July 13, 2003 - By ALICE KENNY - Westchester Weekly Desk - 1228 Words
THE teacher created a sanctuary, the mother said, a place for her son where music reigned and middle-school bullies were kept at bay. But that illusion was shattered when the police arrested the music teacher, accusing him of arranging through the Internet to have sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy. ''The irony was he made class a safe place,'' the mother, Laurane McIntyre said. After the arrest of the Hastings-on-Hudson teacher, Timothy Austin, her son questioned his own judgment, wondering how he could have trusted a man who proved to be so untrustworthy. ''My son admired him and thought he was the best teacher he had,'' she said. ''While this is confusing for adults, it's almost overwhelming for children.''
Former Pediatrician Arrested on New Pedophilia Charges
May 8, 2003 - By SUSAN SAULNY - Metropolitan Desk - 611 Words
A former Brooklyn pediatrician who lost his medical license after a pedophilia conviction 20 years ago faced new charges yesterday for participating in what prosecutors called an international sex ring involving youngboys.
Suit Says Abuse by Friar Led to Son's Suicide
April 19, 2003 - By CALVIN SIMS - National Desk - 633 Words
LOS ANGELES, April 18 The parents of a deeply depressed man who said that as a youth he was sexually molested by a Roman Catholic lay brother have sued the Los Angeles Archdiocese for damages resulting fromtheir son's suicide last year.
Church Seeks Therapy Records
January 17, 2003 - By PAM BELLUCK - National Desk - 743 Words
Victims say that lawyers for the Archdiocese of Boston had begun to depose therapists who are treating the victims and had subpoenaed records of the therapy sessions.
To Prevent Sexual Abuse, Abusers Step Forward
December 3, 2002 - By LINDA VILLAROSA - Health & Fitness - 1879 Words
Instead of focusing exclusively on the victims of abuse, some programs aimed at prevention ask abusers to come forward.
Bishop Knew Boston Priest Had Praised Man-Boy Sex
October 29, 2002 - By PAM BELLUCK - National Desk - 1315 Words
Bishop Thomas V. Daily promoted a priest in 1983 even though he had received complaints, according to a deposition.
Who Would Abduct a Child? Previous Cases Offer Clues
August 27, 2002 - By MARY DUENWALD - Science Desk - 1481 Words
What kind of person abducts a child? After studying hundreds of cases, scientists can provide at least a partial answer.
Cardinal Egan Defends Record in Abuse Cases
August 16, 2002 - By DANIEL J. WAKIN - Metropolitan Desk - 1643 Words
In his first extensive interview since the scandal began, Cardinal Edward M. Egan defended his handling of abuse cases.
Psychiatrist Says His Views on Abuse by Priests Are Similar to His Critics'
August 5, 2002 - By ERICA GOODE - National Desk - 1700 Words
Dr. Paul R. McHugh, who was recently appointed to the panel assembled by the Roman Catholic Church to look into sexual abuse by priests, said he was surprised by the objections to his selection.
A Start at Some Healing, But for One Day, at Least, Wounds Are Still Raw
June 14, 2002 - By SAM DILLON - National Desk - 848 Words
DALLAS, June 13 Craig Martin, a Minnesota businessman, wept openly throughout his speech before 300 American bishops here today as he described being abused by a priest in a motel many years ago.
Papers Show Officials Knew of Priest's Troubles in 1991
May 15, 2002 - By PAM BELLUCK - National Desk - 884 Words
Psychiatric and medical records reveal that officials in the Boston Archdiocese were told in 1991 that the Rev. Paul R. Shanley had serious psychiatric problems.
SCANDALS IN THE CHURCH: THE TREATMENT PROGRAM
Abusive Priests Are Varied, but Treatable, Center Found
April 26, 2002 - By ERICA GOODE - National Desk - 2033 Words
They came to a peaceful retreat in the mountains of New Mexico, bearing emotional troubles and sexual secrets.
Pakistani Group Offers Bleak View of Pakistan's Rights Record
March 29, 2002 - By RAYMOND BONNER - Foreign Desk - 595 Words
A report by a human rights organization paints a bleak picture of respect for human dignity in Pakistan, particularly for women and children.
Bishop Says His Inquiry Into Abuse Should Have Been More Thorough
March 29, 2002 - By DANIEL J. WAKIN - Metropolitan Desk - 932 Words
Bishop Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn, who was a top official in the Boston archdiocese when one of the nation's worst pedophile priests was allowed to keep ministering, acknowledged yesterday that he should have investigated more thoroughly when parishioners complained.
In Seminaries, New Ways for a New Generation
March 25, 2002 - By LAURIE GOODSTEIN - National Desk - 2209 Words
The talk at Roman Catholic seminaries is about the need to produce a new breed of priest: spiritually prepared and psychologically mature.
Papers in Pedophile Case Show Church Effort to Avert Scandal
January 25, 2002 - By PAM BELLUCK - National Desk - 1298 Words
The Boston archdiocese seemed more preoccupied with scandal than making sure John J. Geoghan had no further contact with children.
An Expert's Eye on Teenage Sex, Risk and Abuse
January 15, 2002 - By SUSAN GILBERT - Health & Fitness - 1590 Words
Beyond a certain point, parents can only guess what their children are thinking, feeling and doing about sex and hope that they are doing it safely. But Dr. Lynn Ponton knows.
A Sex Offender Who Served His Time Fights Civil Detention
January 6, 2002 - By LAURA MANSNERUS - Metropolitan Desk - 1645 Words
A New Jersey commitment law poses constitutional issues for a man who has served the maximum sentence for sexual involvement with a minor.
Killer-Cannibal Withdraws Plea to Leave Mental Hospital
December 12, 2001 - By ELISSA GOOTMAN - Metropolitan Desk - 766 Words
RIVERHEAD, N.Y., Dec. 11 Albert Fentress, the former Hudson Valley schoolteacher charged with torturing, killing and cannibalizing an 18-year-old man more than 20 years ago, withdrew his petition today to be releasedfrom a mental hospital.
Study Says 20% of Girls Reported Abuse by a Date
August 1, 2001 - By ERICA GOODE - National Desk - 934 Words
A new report suggests that one in five adolescent girls become the victims of physical or sexual violence in a romantic relationship
Father Finds Girl, 11, Fatally Injured in Hall
May 9, 2001 - By DANIEL J. WAKIN - Metropolitan Desk - 623 Words
A father opened the door to his apartment in the Bronx yesterday and found his 11-year-old daughter lying in the hallway, bleeding and apparently unconscious, the police said. The girl was pronounced dead on arrival at Montefiore Medical Center, and investigators said they believed that she had been sexually abused and were treating the case as a homicide. The girl, Tamiqua Gutierrez, was attacked sometime after leaving school, the police said, as her father fretted because his always punctual daughter had not returned to their apartment in the Olinville section.
Childhood Abuse and Adult Stress
August 2, 2000 - By ERICA GOODE - National Desk - 781 Words
Women who were physically or sexually abused in childhood show exaggerated physiological responses to stressful events, a new study has found. And this abnormal stress response, the researchers found, appears especially pronounced in women who also have symptoms of clinical depression. When exposed to mild stress induced in a laboratory setting, women in the study who suffered from depression and had a history of childhood abuse showed levels of ACTH, a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland in response to stress, six times as high as those in women without such histories. They also had higher levels of cortisol, another stress hormone, and higher heart rates than women who had not been abused. Women with a history of abuse who were not depressed also showed hypersensitivity to the stress, but to a less extreme degree.
No Apology to Orphans, Quebec Church Says
September 16, 1999 - Foreign Desk - 380 Words
Roman Catholic Church officials here said today that there would be no apology or compensation for the aging Quebec orphans who say they suffered years of abuse decades ago while under the care of the church. From the 1930's to the 1950's, the church declared the children mentally ill in the hope of getting more funds from the Canadian Government, which paid more for the care of mentally handicapped children than for orphans.
Sexual Abuse, When Men Are Victims
March 30, 1999 - By ALISA TANG - Health & Fitness - 334 Words
Researchers have learned a great deal in recent years about female victims of sexual abuse and its often tragic consequences. But much less is known about men who are sexually abused. How often does it happen? And what are its effects? A British survey, the largest epidemiological study of nonconsensual sexual experiences in men to date, offers some preliminary answers. In the study, which appears in the current issue of The British Medical Journal, Prof. Michael King and his colleagues at the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London used computerized questionnaires to survey 2,474 male patients of 18 general practitioners in England.
Getting to the Truth in Child Abuse Cases: New Methods
September 8, 1998 - By CAREY GOLDBERG - Science Desk - 2528 Words
AFTER more than 12 years in prison, convicted of raping children at his family's suburban Boston day care center despite his avowals of innocence, Gerald Amirault says he is pinning his hopes on new science to get him out. Not on microbiology; not on DNA testing. No physical evidence of that sort exists against Mr. Amirault, his sister and their late mother. All three were convicted in 1986 and 1987 in the Fells Acres Day School case, which has become the longest-running of the highly publicized day care sexual abuse cases that swept the country back then.
A Child Psychiatrist and Pedophile
His Therapist Knew but Didn't Tell; a Victim Is Suing
April 19, 1998 - By FRANK BRUNI - Metropolitan Desk - 2377 Words
The revelation came without any special buildup, tacked onto a reminiscence about a trip to South America. One moment, Joseph DeMasi was telling his psychiatrist, Douglas H. Ingram, that he had gone there to see the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere. The next, he was confessing an additional agenda: to meet a nice child. Dr. DeMasi was apparently vague about what had happened, according to a deposition by Dr. Ingram in a lawsuit triggered by that fateful therapy session. But Dr. DeMasi was precise about his desires. He was a pedophile, he told Dr. Ingram, and made no apologies for it.
New Light Shed on Normal Sex Behavior in a Child
April 7, 1998 - By SUSAN GILBERT - Science Desk - 1070 Words
WHEN the third-grade teacher noticed a student habitually touching her genitals as she sat in class, she became concerned and did what Federal law requires of teachers: she told the school authorities that the girl displayed one of the signs of sexual abuse. As it turned out, the behavior of the girl was not due to sexual abuse but rather to a childish obliviousness to self-control, said Dr. William Friedrich, a psychologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., who was called in to interview the girl and her family about 18 months ago. ''The girl was fine,'' he said.
Hospital Worker Held in Sexual Abuse Case
December 9, 1997 - Metropolitan Desk - 298 Words
A nurse's aide at Metropolitan Hospital Center was arrested yesterday on charges that he sexually abused three teen-age girls who were being treated for depression in the psychiatric ward, the police said. The aide, Gilberto Austin, 35, is accused of abusing a 14-year-old and two 15-year-olds over three weeks, the police said.
'Memory' Therapy Leads to a Lawsuit And Big Settlement
November 6, 1997 - By PAM BELLUCK - National Desk - 1309 Words
While undergoing psychiatric therapy at a Chicago hospital from 1986 to 1992, Patricia Burgus says, she was convinced by doctors that she had memories of being part of a satanic cult, being sexually abused by numerous men and abusing her own two sons. She says that hypnosis and other treatments caused her to believe she remembered cannibalizing people, so much so that her husband brought in a hamburger from a family picnic and therapists agreed to test the meat to see if it was human.
Adults Recall Suffering Abuse
May 14, 1995 - By CAROLE PAQUETTE - Long Island Weekly Desk - 1734 Words
THIRTEEN years after Susan Psillos was sexually abused at the age of 4 by four teen-age boys in her neighborhood in Centereach, she continued to remember the incident. She was living in Wading River and was on her way to having several abusive relationships, some involving rape, because, she said, she "thought that was normal." "I remember as a child crying and thinking, 'Oh, that happened,' until we moved away," Ms. Psillos recalled. "I also remember trying to commit suicide in the fourth grade by taking a bottle of Vitamin E pills. Childhood secrets of trauma are not healthy."
4 Priests Removed After Admitting They Molested an Altar Boy
February 7, 1995 - National Desk - 549 Words
James Cardinal Hickey has removed four Roman Catholic priests and sent them for treatment after they admitted molesting the same altar boy in the 1970's. Churchgoers in five parishes where the four had served learned the news at Mass on Sunday when priests read a letter from Cardinal Hickey, The Washington Post said today.
Evaluating Sex Abuse 'Memories'
November 15, 1994 - Science Desk - 331 Words
"Repressed memories" of childhood sexual abuse that are recovered years later should not all be taken at face value but should not all be dismissed as fantasies either, a panel of the American Psychological Association says. In a brief interim report last week, the panel said: "Most people who were sexually abused as children remember all or part of what happened to them. However, it is possible for memories of abuse that have been forgotten for a long time to be remembered. It is also possible to construct convincing pseudo-memories for events that never occurred."
Remembering Megan
November 5, 1994 - Editorial Desk - 443 Words
Children are more apt to be sexually abused in the home than outside it. Even so, the threat posed by an unknown predator terrifies American families the most. That is the reason for the community-notification provision that is now part of Federal law -- and for the New Jersey bills that inspired it. The nine-bill package known as Megan's law, signed by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey this week, contains some of the nation's most stringent restrictions on sex offenders. Community-notification laws have been struck down as unconstitutional in five states, but upheld in Washington State. Perhaps New Jersey's can surmount any legal challenges that are almost certain to come its way. But however much it appeases the genuinely righteous anger of those appalled by the death of 7-year-old Megan Kanka last summer, allegedly at the hands of a twice-convicted sex offender named Jesse Timmendequas, Megan's law may not be the protection its supporters think it is.
A Debate Over Bulimia and Abuse
May 31, 1994 - By DANIEL GOLEMAN - Science Desk - 540 Words
WHILE an earlier generation of therapists was criticized for minimizing the lasting psychological impact of their patients' childhood traumas, a current crop of therapists is coming under attack for telling patients that their symptoms indicate they must have suffered a childhood trauma, which they have buried. If the patient cannot come up with such a memory, these therapists help them out with methods that include hypnosis, visualization and even sodium amytal, the so-called "truth serum," actually a short-acting barbiturate that induces an intoxication during which people talk with fewer inhibitions. While no on can say how common these practices are, such methods are "a sure-fire way to implant false memories," said Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, an expert on memory at the University of Washington.
Miscoding Is Seen as the Root of False Memories
May 31, 1994 - By DANIEL GOLEMAN - Science Desk - 2081 Words
IN a scientific nod to the frailty of memory, neurologists and cognitive scientists are coming to a consensus on the mental mechanisms that can foster false memories. The leading candidate is "source amnesia," the inability to recall the origin of the memory of a given event. Once the source of a memory is forgotten, scientists say, people can confuse an event that was only imagined or suggested with a true one. The result is a memory that though false, carries the feeling of authenticity.
Father Who Fought 'Memory Therapy' Wins Damage Suit
May 14, 1994 - By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr., - National Desk - 1079 Words
In a groundbreaking legal verdict, a Napa County jury awarded $500,000 today to a father who had accused psychotherapists of conning his adult daughter into remembering childhood incidents of incest that he said had never occurred. The case, tried over two months, was the first in which a nonpatient challenged therapists who treat patients with a much-debated technique that involves the use of leading questions and other aggressive memory-enhancing procedures to prod patients into recalling events that were so traumatic that their minds repressed them.
When a Buried Truth Wants Out, Is It Real?
April 24, 1994 - By ANDI RIERDEN - Connecticut Weekly Desk - 2053 Words
SIX men and a woman sat around a kitchen table in Hamden the other day telling similar stories. All professionals, they talked about raising their families, watching their children grow up to lead successful lives. Though they might have made some mistakes as parents, they said, overall their kids seemed well adjusted. But then came the nightmare.
Mother Is Found Sane in Killing Accused Molester
September 30, 1993 - National Desk - 612 Words
A woman who fatally shot her son's accused molester was sane at the time of the killing and legally responsible for opening fire on him in a courtroom, a jury found today. The woman, Ellie Nesler, a 41-year-old single mother from Sonora, Calif., faces up to 16 years in prison when she is sentenced on Nov. 29 for the killing of Daniel Mark Driver.
Mother Is Found Sane in Killing Accused Molester
September 30, 1993 - National Desk - 612 Words
A woman who fatally shot her son's accused molester was sane at the time of the killing and legally responsible for opening fire on him in a courtroom, a jury found today. The woman, Ellie Nesler, a 41-year-old single mother from Sonora, Calif., faces up to 16 years in prison when she is sentenced on Nov. 29 for the killing of Daniel Mark Driver.
Mother Is Found Sane in Killing Accused Molester
September 30, 1993 - National Desk - 612 Words
A woman who fatally shot her son's accused molester was sane at the time of the killing and legally responsible for opening fire on him in a courtroom, a jury found today. The woman, Ellie Nesler, a 41-year-old single mother from Sonora, Calif., faces up to 16 years in prison when she is sentenced on Nov. 29 for the killing of Daniel Mark Driver.
Mother Is Found Sane in Killing Accused Molester
September 30, 1993 - National Desk - 612 Words
A woman who fatally shot her son's accused molester was sane at the time of the killing and legally responsible for opening fire on him in a courtroom, a jury found today. The woman, Ellie Nesler, a 41-year-old single mother from Sonora, Calif., faces up to 16 years in prison when she is sentenced on Nov. 29 for the killing of Daniel Mark Driver.
CHRONICLE
August 31, 1993 - By NADINE BROZAN - Style Desk - 303 Words
On the trail with MICHAEL JACKSON: The singer canceled a concert in Singapore yesterday after suffering a severe headache and vomiting as he prepared to go on stage. Mr. Jackson, who was not hospitalized, was taken back to his suite at the Raffles Hotel for an examination. The show was rescheduled for tomorrow. "He was well this afternoon, but as we went to the stadium, he slowly developed this acute headache or migraine," Dr. David Forecast, Mr. Jackson's physician, said to The Associated Press. "He is dizzy. He is vomiting. He is being attended to by a neurology specialist. He was in no condition to perform, in my medical opinion."
Beliefs
July 10, 1993 - By Peter Steinfels - National Desk - 906 Words
In late February 1992, Bishop Gerard O'Keefe, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Davenport, Iowa, opened a letter marked "Personal and Confidential." It came from Jeffrey R. Anderson, a Minnesota lawyer with a national reputation for suing what he recently called "the rats" in the church's basement -- priests accused of sexually abusing minors. The letter was three sentences long. It notified Bishop O'Keefe, then 74 years old, that he was being sued. The accusations: that he had molested two young girls 30 years earlier, when he was an Auxiliary Bishop in the St. Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese and rector of that Archdiocese's cathedral.
Sex Activity by Children Brings Suit Against Home
March 9, 1993 - By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. - Metropolitan Desk - 684 Words
The mother of an 8-year-old girl charged yesterday that social workers at a temporary home for emotionally troubled children in Brooklyn failed to prevent five young boys from repeatedly having sex with her daughter. The woman, Shirley Greenaway, is suing to have the girl, who is mentally retarded, returned to her custody because of what she described as a lack of oversight of her daughter's case by the city and state. On the steps of City Hall yesterday, Ms. Greenaway and her lawyer accused state officials of bungling the investigation into her complaints and of failing to take action against the supervisors at the home.
Doctor in Brooklyn Held In Sex Abuse
September 3, 1992 - Metropolitan Desk - 166 Words
A Brooklyn pediatrician was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually abusing three teen-age patients at his office over the last 15 months, the police said. Dr. Gerald Levinson, whose office is at 1098 Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick, was charged with five counts of sexual abuse, two counts of attempted sodomy, five counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of promoting the sexual performance of a child, said a police spokesman, Officer Scott Bloch. The last charge "relates to photos of one of the patients" believed to have been taken by Dr. Levinson, who lives at 135 Post Avenue in Westbury, L.I., Officer Bloch said.
Childhood Trauma: Memory or Invention?
July 21, 1992 - By DANIEL GOLEMAN - Science Desk - 2060 Words
IS it Satan or is it Salem? A wave of cases in which men and women suddenly remember traumatic events from their childhood has set off a debate among psychologists who study memory and trauma. Some psychotherapists say that symptoms like depression can result from childhood sexual abuse, even if the memories of it have been repressed. A few even claim that some of these cases of sexual abuse were part of the rituals of Satanic cults.
Doctors Are Advised to Screen Women for Abuse
June 17, 1992 - National Desk - 536 Words
Domestic violence is so common that doctors should routinely screen their female patients for it, the American Medical Association recommended yesterday. The A.M.A. released guidelines that suggested screening all women seen in emergency, surgical, primary care, pediatric, prenatal and mental health settings.
Courts Begin to Respect Memory of Child Abuse
January 8, 1991 - National Desk - 1160 Words
When she was 10 years old, Lorretta Woodbury was raped. Her attacker was her father. He told her it was "something special" between fathers and daughters, and he commanded her not to talk about it. Nearly three decades later, Ms. Woodbury began to talk about what she said were the repeated sexual assaults by her father over seven years. She talked to her father, to her friends and to the police.
Perils Seen In Warnings About Abuse
November 21, 1989 - By DANIEL GOLEMAN - Science Desk - 1533 Words
LEAD: A SHARP dispute is emerging over whether nationwide efforts to educate young children about the dangers of sexual abuse are instilling fears and confusion more often than they prevent such abuse.
Ex-Chief of Child Center Rebuts Sex Charge
March 9, 1989 - AP - Metropolitan Desk - 234 Words
LEAD: The former director of the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center assailed a state watchdog agency's finding that she and her staff had done nothing to stop sexual activity among patients.
2d Psychiatric Worker Accused of Sex Crimes
February 1, 1989 - AP - Metropolitan Desk - 202 Words
LEAD: A second employee at the troubled Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center has been charged with sexually abusing a patient, the police said yesterday.
Changes Ordered at Children's Center
January 21, 1989 - By ROBERT HANLEY, Special to the New York Times - Metropolitan Desk - 653 Words
LEAD: State mental-health officials have ordered a series of management changes at a children's psychiatric center where a state inquiry uncovered a patients' ''sex club'' and four instances of sex between staff members and young patients.
SCIENCE WATCH
EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL ABUSE
April 14, 1987 - Science Desk - 278 Words
LEAD: IN young children, genital or rectal infection with the microbes Chlamydia trachomatis provides strong evidence that they have been sexually abused, doctors have concluded after a study.
PERSONAL HEALTH
February 18, 1987 - By JANE E. BRODY - Living Desk - 1405 Words
LEAD: IT wasn't easy for the 6-year-old boy to tell his mother that her stepbrother was abusing him physically and sexually. It was even harder when she told him to stop telling lies. Only when the boy eventually told a teacher, who intervened, did the mother take her son seriously and force the stepbrother to move out.
CHILD SEX ABUSE CHARGED IN MORE DIVORCES
January 19, 1987 - By GEORGIA DULLEA - Style Desk - 1451 Words
LEAD: Growing numbers of fathers involved in divorce disputes are being wrongly accused of sexually molesting their children, according to family law experts and mental health professionals who specialize in evaluating reports of child sexual abuse.
THERAPISTS SEEK CAUSES OF CHILD MOLESTING
January 13, 1987 - By JANE E. BRODY - Science Desk - 1519 Words
LEAD: WHILE courts and communities confront allegations of sexual abuse of children in schools and day care centers around the country, researchers and therapists are struggling to understand what causes child molestation and devise better treatment.
SEX CASE ACCUSER IS DISCOVERED DEAD
December 21, 1986 - By MARCIA CHAMBERS, Special to the New York Times - National Desk - 890 Words
The body of the woman whose complaint began the McMartin preschool molestation case was found in her home on Friday, and the police today began investigating the circumstances of her death. The woman, Judy Johnson, 42 years old, whose mental stability has been the focus of a pretrial hearing going on in Superior Court here, was found dead Friday afternoon in her home in the affluent, seaside community of Manhattan Beach. The authorities performed an autopsy, but said further toxicological and neurological tests were needed to determine the cause of death. She had been identified in court as Judy J. and was expected to testify in the pretrial hearing.
WESTCHESTER JURY SEEKS HOLIDAY SEASON OFF
November 25, 1986 - By JAMES FERON, Special to the New York Times - Metropolitan Desk - 402 Words
The jury in the longest trial in the history of Westchester County, a sexual abuse case that began in March, has presented the presiding judge with a list of holiday requests. The jurors, six men and six women, apparently concerned that the trial would go into 1987, asked County Judge Francis A. Nicolai to insure that they would not be sequestered for deliberations during the Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year's holidays. They also asked that any sequestration be in Westchester, rather than in Rockland County, where juries are often taken. The jurors also listed restaurants they would like to order from during deliberations.
Rape Suspect, 15, Held Without Bail
October 5, 1985 - By The Associated Press - Metropolitan Desk - 167 Words
A 15-year-old high-school freshman charged with sexual assaults on Bronx schoolgirls was held without bail yesterday and ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation, the Bronx District Attorney's office announced. The suspect, Hermon Dennis, was arrested Thursday and charged with rape and sexual abuse in attacks on two 8-year-old girls Tuesday in a restroom of Public School 161 at 628 Tinton Avenue.
CUOMO SIGNS BILL LETTING CHILDREN TESTIFY BY TV
August 4, 1985 - UPI - Metropolitan Desk - 429 Words
Children who are victims of sexual abuse will now be able to testify in court by means of two-way, closed-circuit television under one of several bills signed into law this week by Governor Cuomo. Senator Martin Knorr, a Republican from Glendale, Queens, who sponsored the measure, said the law would reduce the stress children undergo when talking of their experiences during a trial. The two-way system will permit lawyers to cross-examine the children.
SEX CHARGES AGAINST PRIEST EMBROIL LOUISIANA PARENTS
June 20, 1985 - By JON NORDHEIMER, Special to the New York Times - National Desk - 1211 Words
The admission by a Roman Catholic priest that he sexually abused 37 children entrusted to his care has aroused a deep sense of betrayal and shame in this small rural community in southwestern Louisiana. Altar boys and members of the parish Boy Scout troop were among those molested by the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, 40 years old, according to felony charges of sexual abuse lodged against him by the local authorities. Father Gauthe, who has been suspended by his Bishop and is currently confined to a private psychiatric hospital in Connecticut, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 34 counts of molestation. If convicted, he could face life imprisonment at hard labor. Assuming that the case reaches the trial stage - no date has yet been set -it may be the first time that a priest has faced such charges in an American court of law, according to The National Catholic Reporter, which has carried a number of articles on the case.
PHYSICIANS ALERTED TO RISKS OF ABUSE
May 23, 1985 - By SHARON JOHNSON - Home Desk - 781 Words
ALTHOUGH violence is a common experience for American women, some physicians overlook it in treating their patients because they do not recognize the emotional and physical signs of rape, wife-beating and child abuse. That was the conclusion of a panel of experts who addressed 3,500 members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists at the organization's 33d annual meeting here. ''One in seven American women will be sexually assaulted sometime during her life,'' Dr. Malcolm G. Freeman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University in Atlanta, told the physicians. ''More physicians are having to cope with this problem, because only about 20 percent of women who have been sexually assaulted report the crime to the police.''
Teen-Age Sexual Abuse
May 21, 1985 - Science Desk - 243 Words
As many as one in five adolescents may be victims of some sort of sexual abuse, although fewer than half of them will ever tell an adult about it, according to a newly published Government report. In one survey it was discovered that, among teen-age girls who were victims of sexual assault, only one in five victims told their parents about the incident, while four out of five confided in a friend, according to Ann Wolpert Burgess, a professor of psychiatric nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, who wrote the report.
COUPLE ON TRIAL FOR SEX ABUSE OF 5 CHILDREN DENY CHARGES
September 11, 1984 - By E. R. SHIPP - National Desk - 514 Words
A man and woman accused of sexually abusing their 6-year-old son and four other children denied every charge as they testified this morning at their trial in the Carver County Courthouse. The case, which is expected to go to the jury later this week, seems to come down to the word of the six children who have testified for the prosecution against the word of the defendants, Robert L. and Lois J. Bentz. The Bentzes described themselves as a hard-working, middle-class couple who deeply loved their children. They were preceded to the witness stand by their 13-year-old son who said that his parents had never molested him or his brothers; a physician who said he had found no evidence of sexual abuse of the children; a priest who had blessed the Bentz home, and a psychologist who described them as ''normal, average kinds of folk.''
FREUD: SECRET DOCUMENTS REVEAL YEARS OF STRIFE
January 24, 1984 - By RALPH BLUMENTHAL - Science Desk - 3393 Words
-secret documents offer further indications of Sigmund Freud's anguish over his first major theory, new evidence of efforts to cover up that anguish and provide important new information about the life of the man himself. In the view of the scholar who made the material available to The New York Times, the documents establish ''a failure of courage'' on the part of Freud and show that personal considerations, long shielded from scholars, prompted Freud to abandon this early tenet, the so-called seduction theory. This view is vigorously disputed by other Freud experts. The scholar, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, was formerly the projects director for the Sigmund Freud Archives and was to have become its next director, but was dismissed in 1981 in a dispute over interpretation of other controversial Freud material. The new material shows, among other things, that Freud, in his last years before his death in 1939, sought to suppress the work of a colleague, Sandor Ferenczi, who held what Freud and others in the psychoanalytic movement regarded as heretical views - views that in some ways paralleled Freud's own early work on the seduction theory.
ETAN PATZ CASE PUTS NEW FOCUS ON A SEXUAL DISORDER, PEDOPHILIA
January 4, 1983 - By BRYCE NELSON - Science Desk - 1629 Words
WHEN disturbing new evidence recently revived the case of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who disappeared three years ago near his home in Manhattan, parental fears for the safety of small children were also reawakened. One piece of evidence - which ultimately lost credibility - was a photograph that seemed to link Etan Patz's fate to the North American Man-Boy Love Association, a group that says it exists ''to support the right of men and boys to have consensual sex together.'' . Although the photograph has been eliminated as evidence, the police continue to investigate the possiblity that Etan was abducted to be sexually used. The statements of the North American Man-Boy Love Association focused the attention of an incredulous public on the fact that there are not only people who have sexual relations with children but who publicly assert that it has benevolent effects. At a news conference last week in New York, a spokesman for the association would not say at what age his group thought that a boy was too young to give informed consent to having sexual relations with an adult.