Torture, sodomy alleged in shrink case

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Ruling body won't pursue torture, sex claims
By KEVIN CONNOR, TORONTO SUN

This article contains graphic content

TORONTO (Sun Media) - An Ottawa psychiatrist accused of having depraved sex and torturing two of his male patients -- alleged acts that included tying a rope around one young man's genitals and leading him around the office -- will never practise again, a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario disciplinary hearing heard yesterday.

"(Dr. Juan Ernesto Tejeda Rosario, 68, known as Dr. Tejeda) has resigned his membership in the college and will never be allowed to reapply in Ontario or any other jurisdiction," Jill Copeland, legal counsel for the college, said at the hearing.

In exchange, the college will not pursue allegations that Tejeda engaged in acts of sexual impropriety, sexual abuse and disgraceful and unprofessional conduct with the two patients between 1990 and 2006.

Tejeda has also been charged criminally with six counts of sexual assault. None of the allegations have been proven in court.

College documents allege Tejeda forced one patient to perform oral and oral-anal sex.

When the patient told officials at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1998 about the sexual abuse, Tejeda allegedly forced him to retract the disclosure. Tejeda also allegedly paid the patient's girlfriend $3,000 not to disclose the sexual abuse.

The same documents accuse Tejeda of raping a second young man, also a patient, while his head was in a toilet and sodomizing him with a toilet brush. He's also accused of piercing the patient's scrotum and penis with a needle so it would bleed.

It's also alleged that the second patient was forced to perform oral sex with a plastic bag over his head.

Tejeda would also allegedly whip the patient's buttocks with a riding crop while talking about sexual fantasies that would be so rough the patient would need "medical attention."

"Currently, he could work as a psychotherapist, but he is under bail conditions that speak to his ability to see patients," said Kathryn Clarke, a spokesman for the college. "A new bill, Bill 171, is being created to set up a College of Psychotherapists."

The ministry of health is working on the new bill to tighten up loopholes in the health act that prevents psychiatrists like Tejeda from setting up practice as a therapist, a profession not legislated by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.

 

[AndyF]

:laughing3:

Cases involving children excepted, anyone that allows himself to be carried away and used in this manner has his credibility weakened, and had best should just drop the issue. I wouldn't want to know my males friends had to go through this. There is only one time to put a halt on this activity and that is immediately and forcefully. It applies to women as well. I would be willing to bet that a well placed knuckle punch on the bridge of the nose by any female would have resulted in a halt to this stuff.

Secondly, there is so much information available compared to the past decades that show with reasonable certainty what will occur next after ropes,whips,toilet articles are taken out, that one should at least ask for an explaination beforehand, and in all cases state no involvement, and of course the door is always there.

It should be remembered that boys at 15 have the strength of men and are sexually mature and can take care of themselves. Not an example of good conduct, but all the same in my day at that age hunting down gays for punching practice was a common activity. In those days touching would have resulted in a broken arm, which makes me wonder what people are made of these days, and whether or not at some point in the advance they hesitated because they found something in it was found appealing or novel. Not a certainty but a possibility.

AndyF

 

[tamarin]

Psychology is a playground for the unscrupulous. Psychiatrists must be masters at the chicanery. I have no idea why anyone is even certified in the quackery.

 

[snfu73]

Psychology is a playground for the unscrupulous. Psychiatrists must be masters at the chicanery. I have no idea why anyone is even certified in the quackery.

I dunno...I'm pretty glad there are people trained as psychiatrists and psychologists. They've done an awful lot of good for me. Granted, I've also been in some programs that weren't so helpful, and got out of them in a hurry. But for the most part, I would say that psychiatry is a very important part of medical science.

 

[Josephine]

Yes, we do need those trained in psychiatry and social work and whatnot, what we don't need are the perverts who have those positions. But there are perverts everywhere in every profession.
Those men were obviously there for some reason and they needed help, instead they were abused in a horrible way. I don't know why they were't able to stop the abuse, but I wasn't there and can't presume to know how damaged they were to begin with.
I think most professionals are they to help and they do help.
I don't think people should be accusing the victims of enjoying their abuse. Physical or sexual abuse doesn't always just occur, grooming or preparation, mental or emotional abuse can occur beforehand as well. Just because someone can't make it stop, is no reason to blame them or say they deserved it.
AndyF, just because you wouldn't want to know if your male friends had been raped or abused, doesn't mean they should shut-up and not speak about it. Their priority is healing and doing what needs to be done for them, not sheltering you from the horrors of the world.