Doghairrules
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Yep, that's the one. Double ugh!
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Certainly something to think about, although I believe more than one child was involved, so to me that makes him a repeat offender, and what are the chances of “exposing himself and putting a child's hand on his penis” being the only thing that happened, after all these are his words. I’ll change my opinion to he should receive a harsher punishment, but like I said earlier I do not believe anything will be done to him. He’ll make a plea deal and walk free to destroy more innocent children. OR maybe he will commit suicide
Turn it around for a moment: suppose you were in therapy. Would you want your counselor to discuss your victimization and the ensuing trauma with your friends and family members, your pastor, your employer and perhaps even your abuser himself? I'm sure you wouldn't and I wouldn't blame you.
The therapist-patient confidentiality rule is there to protect patients of all stripes.
Now I think most states allow/require a therapist to break confidentiality to prevent a future crime. But in this case, if I understand it correctly, the crimes confessed were 30-years-old. Add to this the fact that a therapist has to consider that patients often confess to things they did NOT do in order to "entertain" the therapist and one can see why betraying the therapist/patient confidentiality is a complicated subject.
And as others have pointed out, do we want pedophiles talking to therapists or not?
"In New York, a person has five years from their 18th birthday to make an accusation of sexual abuse to authorities".
This is awful... Most people are not able to report by this time as they are still attempting to fight the demons inside.
If they aren't avid news readers or gossip mag aficionados then maybe you won't have to.I have several clients with intellectual disabilities who love this show and check out episodes from the library on a regular basis. How, pray tell, am I supposed to explain to them when they hear that the "preacher" did this to young girls (especially when one of those clients was sexually abused as a child herself?)
It does bother me, since it will make few and few people reach out for help. I would rather have a pedophile going to therapy than not.
Turn it around for a moment: suppose you were in therapy. Would you want your counselor to discuss your victimization and the ensuing trauma with your friends and family members, your pastor, your employer and perhaps even your abuser himself? I'm sure you wouldn't and I wouldn't blame you.
The therapist-patient confidentiality rule is there to protect patients of all stripes.
Now I think most states allow/require a therapist to break confidentiality to prevent a future crime. But in this case, if I understand it correctly, the crimes confessed were 30-years-old. Add to this the fact that a therapist has to consider that patients often confess to things they did NOT do in order to "entertain" the therapist and one can see why betraying the therapist/patient confidentiality is a complicated subject.
And as others have pointed out, do we want pedophiles talking to therapists or not?
BBM "all that Collins has confessed to"??? Yeah..that is all.:notgood:
I can't speak for Nova but I took him to mean that doing to Collins what he did to the kids would not be punishment. He'd probably even enjoy it.
Maybe so.
I just really did not appreciate the Wsers previous post referring to me going to therapy and wouldn't I want my sessions kept private. First of all, I never went. And secondly, if the parent of a child does press charges, aren't all the details of the abuse discussed in court anyway? Seems like a lose/lose for the victim either way. I hadn't planned to write again as this really is hurtful. I guess that is great if some children just get over it and it doesn't affect them for the rest of their life as one poster said. But for others, it will be a memory they will never forget.