Saturday, June 11, 2011
SPEECH THERAPIST CHARGED WITH 50 COUNTS OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
BSO Case Number: BS10-12-4847
PIO Number: 10-12-19
Date: 12/22/10
Time: 11 a.m. Jurisdiction: Pembroke Pines
Place of Occurrence: 8770 NW 7 Ct., Pembroke Pines
A Broward County speech pathologist isn’t saying much after Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives took him into custody for possession of child pornography.
Following over a dozen tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited children alerting of a computer user who was uploading and sharing pornographic images of children, BSO detectives with the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted an investigation and obtained a warrant to search a home in the city of Pembroke Pines.
When detectives arrived at the home at 8770 NW 7 Ct. on Dec. 22, they came in contact with their target, 66-year-old Warren Day, who at the time was on his computer viewing a child pornography website.
A preliminary evaluation of Day’s computer revealed hundreds of pornographic images of children between 1 and 12 years of age engaging in sexual acts with adults, other children and in sexually explicit positions.
Day refused to answer questions without the presence of his lawyer, but stated “I am a piece of (vulgar term for excrement)” in the presence of BSO detectives.
Day was arrested and charged with 50 counts of child pornography. More charges could be filed pending a full forensic analysis of Day’s computer and two other media devices found inside his home. He was arrested in 1982 in Dade County for committing a sexual act against a child and served two years probation. Due to the date of his offense, he was not required to register as a sexual offender.
For the past seven months Day has worked as a speech pathologist at the Hollywood Rehab Center working with seniors, but throughout his 30 year career he has come in contact with children from kindergarten to high school. He was previously employed by the Dade County School System.
Detectives have identified at least one victim and fear there could be others. If you know anyone who’s been a victim of Warren Day you’re asked to contact BSO Detective Jennifer Montgomery at 954-888-5239 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477).
INVESTIGATORS: Det. Montgomery, ICAC
THIS REPORT BY: Keyla Concepción/PIO 12/23/2010 0810
PIO Number: 10-12-19
Date: 12/22/10
Time: 11 a.m. Jurisdiction: Pembroke Pines
Place of Occurrence: 8770 NW 7 Ct., Pembroke Pines
A Broward County speech pathologist isn’t saying much after Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives took him into custody for possession of child pornography.
Following over a dozen tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited children alerting of a computer user who was uploading and sharing pornographic images of children, BSO detectives with the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force conducted an investigation and obtained a warrant to search a home in the city of Pembroke Pines.
When detectives arrived at the home at 8770 NW 7 Ct. on Dec. 22, they came in contact with their target, 66-year-old Warren Day, who at the time was on his computer viewing a child pornography website.
A preliminary evaluation of Day’s computer revealed hundreds of pornographic images of children between 1 and 12 years of age engaging in sexual acts with adults, other children and in sexually explicit positions.
Day refused to answer questions without the presence of his lawyer, but stated “I am a piece of (vulgar term for excrement)” in the presence of BSO detectives.
Day was arrested and charged with 50 counts of child pornography. More charges could be filed pending a full forensic analysis of Day’s computer and two other media devices found inside his home. He was arrested in 1982 in Dade County for committing a sexual act against a child and served two years probation. Due to the date of his offense, he was not required to register as a sexual offender.
For the past seven months Day has worked as a speech pathologist at the Hollywood Rehab Center working with seniors, but throughout his 30 year career he has come in contact with children from kindergarten to high school. He was previously employed by the Dade County School System.
Detectives have identified at least one victim and fear there could be others. If you know anyone who’s been a victim of Warren Day you’re asked to contact BSO Detective Jennifer Montgomery at 954-888-5239 or Broward Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-TIPS (8477).
INVESTIGATORS: Det. Montgomery, ICAC
THIS REPORT BY: Keyla Concepción/PIO 12/23/2010 0810
Boone therapist charged with doing drugs, having sex with minors in her care
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former Boone County therapist has been charged with providing drugs to teenage boys under her care and having sex with them.
Boone County sheriff's deputies arrested Tressie Hayes, 34, of Julian, on Saturday. She was a therapist at the Prestera Center in Danville. The center provides mental health services.
According to a criminal complaint filed May 3, Deputy B.G. Browning interviewed a 17-year-old boy, identified as "C.M" in the complaint, in late December 2010 after the boy was assaulted by Russell Gillenwater, Hayes' ex-husband.
The complaint does not say whether Gillenwater has been charged with assault, and the Daily Mail was not able to determine that through Boone Magistrate Court on Monday.
C.M. told Browning that Hayes threatened him, "saying that if he ever told anyone what she was doing, she would have Mr. Gillenwater to kill him," the complaint reads.
The boy said he and Hayes went on "drug runs" together and smoked marijuana, snorted pain pills and had sex at her home, according to the complaint. Hayes supplied the drugs, the complaint reports.
C.M. also said he had a sexual relationship with Hayes' 13-year-old daughter and said Hayes was aware of the relationship, according to the complaint. He told Browning that Hayes also was aware of her daughter's sexual relationship with her current 19-year-old boyfriend, the complaint says.
Another of Hayes' alleged victims, a 15-year-old identified as "A.B.," told Browning and another officer that he also made drug runs, smoked marijuana and took pain pills with Hayes, who supplied the drugs on all but one occasion, according to the complaint.
Hayes once crushed a pill on her desk at the Prestera Center for her and A.B. to snort, the complaint said.
A.B. also witnessed Hayes' daughter and preteen son smoking marijuana and witnessed sex between C.M. and Hayes as well as between Hayes' daughter and boyfriend, the complaint says.
"He said they even had a discussion about it, and (Hayes) was laughing about it," Browning wrote in the complaint.
Browning went to Hayes' home to discuss the allegations, but she refused to talk to the deputy before consulting with her attorney, Wendle Cook, the complaint said.
When Browning tried to make an appointment to talk with Cook and Hayes together, Cook said Hayes had not hired him, the complaint says.
Posted By: mskamish Report Abuse
If this had been committed by a man He would have been charged with Rape. I think this should be considered a rape case given the fact that Mind-Altering drugs were used to perhaps ease the anxiety associated with the crimes being committed??
Posted By: Stick2theTruth Report Abuse
If by chance would anyone consider this is not exactly clear cut? I personally know a lot of parents and find it hard to even think that they would not have checked up on this woman, most probably referred and recommended therapist, Did the child or children have any noticeable issues prior to this? I hope for someone to use some commonsense. I'm not perfect nor will I ever be. It's just 2 easy to attack, personally I don't believe everything someone says; who or whomever they are.
Posted By: knows nothing Report Abuse
mskamish: She is charged with sexual abuse by a parent, guardian, custodian or person in position of trust to a child. There is no RAPE statute. Same thing - she has been charged with a sex crime
Posted By: habibhaddad Report Abuse
How else was she going to weaken their resolve? Another great story of custodial abuse in the Appalachians.
Posted By: WEST VIRGINIAN Report Abuse
It is amazing that these Adult predators of young people think that the victims will not talk.
Harford psychologist charged with sexual child abuse
On December 3, 2010, detectives from the Harford County Child Advocacy Center charged a Whiteford psychologist Dr. David Schrumpf with several counts of sexual abuse of a minor and sexual offenses. The investigation began when the CAC received reports of abuse from two children who were receiving therapy from him.
The alleged abuse occurred over several months during 2010 in his office in Fallston. Schrumpf, 55, is being held at the Harford County Detention Center with no bail.
Anyone from the public with further information concerning this investigation is asked to contact Trooper Michelle Workman at the Harford County Child Advocacy Center at 410-638-3294 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 410-638-3294
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Four women, 15-year-old girl arrested after chase in Swansea
Four women, 15-year-old girl arrested after chase in Swansea
By CAROLINE SMITH
casmith@thestate.com
Four womenand a 15-year-old girl have been linked to a string of violent crimes thatincludes the shooting death of a man during an attempted robbery last week,authorities said Tuesday.
All fiveconfessed to their involvement in the spree, Lt. Chris Cowan, spokesman for theRichland County Sheriff's Department, said Tuesday.
The womendressed like men during the attacks, and their victims were men, RichlandCounty Sheriff Leon Lott said.
"This isdefinitely different," he said.
Four of thefive, including the juvenile, were charged with murder in the shooting death of22-year-old Keith Etheridge on Friday. The other adult was charged inconnection with the robberies.
Family andfriends of Etheridge, who was fatally shot during a robbery gone bad, welcomedthe announcement of the arrests by the Sheriff's Department.
Etheridge'saunt, Mazie Lawson, said, "I'm just relieved myself. At least that set ofpeople won't do harm to anybody else."
The incidentsbegan last month, according to Richland County reports.
On July 31,two women entered Abigail Vilchls' home on Percival Road at about 3:30 p.m. He was shot in the hand and his carwas taken.
On Friday, Columbia police receiveda call at about 12:30 a.m.that five people were trying to rob people in the parking lot of Video Expresson Two Notch Road.They didn't find the person who called 911 or the robbers. However, aftersearching the area, police found the body of Etheridge, 22, in an idling car onCarnegie Street.He had been shot twice in the chest.
Later Friday,Juan Sandos was robbed at gunpoint in his house on Fox Trail Lane by four people around 6 p.m. He was assaulted, and hismoney and vehicle were taken.
The spreeended Saturday, when Swanseapolice officers tried to stop Sandos' stolen car for speeding.
After the cardidn't stop and officers realized it was stolen, police started a pursuit, a Swansea police reportsaid.
At one point,a black bag, which police later recovered, was thrown out of the car's window.A handgun inside was linked to the robberies and the murder, Lott said.
The carfinally stopped, and the driver escaped.
Inside thecar, police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to the report.
Facing murdercharges are:
Janeshia Furtick, 17, of N. CampanellaExtension, Columbia
Tamika Holiday, 19, of Airbase Road, Columbia
Trakita Cooper, 17, of Hallbrook Drive, Columbia
The 15-year-old girl who was notidentified because of her age
All four alsoface robbery charges. In addition, Holiday ischarged with assault and battery with intent to kill.
One woman,Starr Richardson, 25, of Bailey Street, Columbia,is charged only in the robberies.
Cowan said investigatorsthink Richardsoncould be the driver of the vehicle involved in the chase.
On Tuesdayafternoon, friends and family of Etheridge attended a visitation atBostick-Tompkins Funeral Home on Colonial Drive.
His youngersister, Kawanda, remembered Etheridge as a loving, family-oriented man who wasalways smiling. She said Etheridge's girlfriend was three months pregnant withtheir first child.
Etheridge wasemployed as a driver for Inter-Rail Transport.
KawandaEtheridge said her brother used to take her 3-year-old son, Damaryon, on tripsto Charleston."It's hard to explain to him why Uncle Keith won't be able to play withhim no more."
She had amessage for the suspects: "I'm happy you got caught and I hope you neverget out. You took an innocent life. You took a father, a brother."
E.B. Strong,executive director of Gang Out in Columbia,said he has seen increased violence among groups of young women in the Midlands.
"I thinkyoung ladies are trying to prove they are just as bad as males and are attackingmales," he said.
Fifth CircuitAssistant Solicitor Kendall Corley said a hearing to determine whether the15-year-old will be charged as an adult is scheduled for 2 p.m. today.
Bond hearingsfor the others are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
By CAROLINE SMITH
casmith@thestate.com
Four womenand a 15-year-old girl have been linked to a string of violent crimes thatincludes the shooting death of a man during an attempted robbery last week,authorities said Tuesday.
All fiveconfessed to their involvement in the spree, Lt. Chris Cowan, spokesman for theRichland County Sheriff's Department, said Tuesday.
The womendressed like men during the attacks, and their victims were men, RichlandCounty Sheriff Leon Lott said.
"This isdefinitely different," he said.
Four of thefive, including the juvenile, were charged with murder in the shooting death of22-year-old Keith Etheridge on Friday. The other adult was charged inconnection with the robberies.
Family andfriends of Etheridge, who was fatally shot during a robbery gone bad, welcomedthe announcement of the arrests by the Sheriff's Department.
Etheridge'saunt, Mazie Lawson, said, "I'm just relieved myself. At least that set ofpeople won't do harm to anybody else."
The incidentsbegan last month, according to Richland County reports.
On July 31,two women entered Abigail Vilchls' home on Percival Road at about 3:30 p.m. He was shot in the hand and his carwas taken.
On Friday, Columbia police receiveda call at about 12:30 a.m.that five people were trying to rob people in the parking lot of Video Expresson Two Notch Road.They didn't find the person who called 911 or the robbers. However, aftersearching the area, police found the body of Etheridge, 22, in an idling car onCarnegie Street.He had been shot twice in the chest.
Later Friday,Juan Sandos was robbed at gunpoint in his house on Fox Trail Lane by four people around 6 p.m. He was assaulted, and hismoney and vehicle were taken.
The spreeended Saturday, when Swanseapolice officers tried to stop Sandos' stolen car for speeding.
After the cardidn't stop and officers realized it was stolen, police started a pursuit, a Swansea police reportsaid.
At one point,a black bag, which police later recovered, was thrown out of the car's window.A handgun inside was linked to the robberies and the murder, Lott said.
The carfinally stopped, and the driver escaped.
Inside thecar, police found marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to the report.
Facing murdercharges are:
Janeshia Furtick, 17, of N. CampanellaExtension, Columbia
Tamika Holiday, 19, of Airbase Road, Columbia
Trakita Cooper, 17, of Hallbrook Drive, Columbia
The 15-year-old girl who was notidentified because of her age
All four alsoface robbery charges. In addition, Holiday ischarged with assault and battery with intent to kill.
One woman,Starr Richardson, 25, of Bailey Street, Columbia,is charged only in the robberies.
Cowan said investigatorsthink Richardsoncould be the driver of the vehicle involved in the chase.
On Tuesdayafternoon, friends and family of Etheridge attended a visitation atBostick-Tompkins Funeral Home on Colonial Drive.
His youngersister, Kawanda, remembered Etheridge as a loving, family-oriented man who wasalways smiling. She said Etheridge's girlfriend was three months pregnant withtheir first child.
Etheridge wasemployed as a driver for Inter-Rail Transport.
KawandaEtheridge said her brother used to take her 3-year-old son, Damaryon, on tripsto Charleston."It's hard to explain to him why Uncle Keith won't be able to play withhim no more."
She had amessage for the suspects: "I'm happy you got caught and I hope you neverget out. You took an innocent life. You took a father, a brother."
E.B. Strong,executive director of Gang Out in Columbia,said he has seen increased violence among groups of young women in the Midlands.
"I thinkyoung ladies are trying to prove they are just as bad as males and are attackingmales," he said.
Fifth CircuitAssistant Solicitor Kendall Corley said a hearing to determine whether the15-year-old will be charged as an adult is scheduled for 2 p.m. today.
Bond hearingsfor the others are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Virginia Judge rejects molestation guilty plea from wife.
Judge rejects molestation guilty plea
Melina McPherson
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - A judge rejected a plea agreement for a Chesapeake woman accused of sex acts against children in Virginia Beach.
Melina McPherson entered a guilty plea. The judge did not accept the plea.
McPherson's case will now go to the Virginia Supreme Court, so they can appoint a judge outside of Virginia Beach.
Her husband, Stephen McPherson, is already serving a 16-year sentence for sexually abusing children.
He is a former assistant dean at Regent University
Melina McPherson
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - A judge rejected a plea agreement for a Chesapeake woman accused of sex acts against children in Virginia Beach.
Melina McPherson entered a guilty plea. The judge did not accept the plea.
McPherson's case will now go to the Virginia Supreme Court, so they can appoint a judge outside of Virginia Beach.
Her husband, Stephen McPherson, is already serving a 16-year sentence for sexually abusing children.
He is a former assistant dean at Regent University
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Therapist Charged With Beating Child
A therapist hired by a Long Hill Township couple to teach their 4-year-old autistic son in their home was charged with beating and sexually assaulting the boy after his parents secretly videotaped a session in their basement, Morris County authorities said yesterday.
Christine Mischenko, a 23-year-old Middletown behavior therapist working with the boy since January 2003, is charged with kicking and punching the boy in the head, shaking him by the ears, lifting him off the floor by his hair and squeezing and pulling the boy's genitals, Morris County Prosecutor Michael Rubbinaccio said.
The parents watched the tape Wednesday night, after Mischenko went home. They immediately called police.
Mischenko was arrested at 4 a.m. Thursday at her home. She lives with her parents, who were out of town at the time.
Mischenko was charged with second-degree sexual assault, child endangerment and third-degree aggravated assault. She remains in the county jail in lieu of $100,000 bail and faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence, Rubbinaccio said.
Rubbinaccio said the videotape showed more than two hours of disturbing violence. The boy barely talks, weaving together a couple of words at a time and using sign language to communicate. "She is sadistic and cruel," he said of Mischenko.
The boy's father agreed. "It is a nightmare. I never thought that someone we trusted and let into our home would do something like this," the 41-year-old father said. "When we watched that tape Wednesday my wife cried, saying, 'How can she do that to our baby?' I got so disgusted."
But the woman's father, George Mischenko, said his daughter would never hurt a child. "She is a good person. She doesn't abuse kids. It's unfair what they are saying about her," George Mischenko said.
Christine Mischenko, however, admitted to the charges, plus spraying the victim in the face with an unknown liquid in a hypodermic needle, according to Long Hill police Detective Sgt. Sean Brown's arrest affidavit. She admitted to the abuse not only on Wednesday, but for the past two weeks, the affidavit states.
The boy's father and mother said that two weeks ago they noticed a rash on their son's hands and purple bruises on his earlobes. When the therapist showed up at the house, the boy would hug his mother, not wanting to go to the basement, the father said. The parents asked Mischenko about the rash and bruises, but didn't get an explanation, they said.
The father bought a $300 wireless video surveillance camera with a lens the size of a pinhead. He placed it on a bookshelf in the basement and, on Wednesday, recorded the session. The boy's mother was home at the time. Though the tape shows the boy screaming, he occasionally did that, so that didn't alarm the boy's mother, Rubbinaccio said.
Mischenko was employed by Neptune-based New Horizons in Autism, a nonprofit agency that offers residential, vocational, family support and behavior therapy programs. It has contracts with some 20 school districts, charging $65 an hour for services.
Her boss, executive director Michele Goodman, said, "I'm appalled at her. My concern is for that child."
Mischenko, who did not need certification to do the job, has worked with other autistic children and was never accused of abusing them, Goodman said. She was being groomed for a new position, and was only working with the Long Hill boy twice a week for two hours. She was fired yesterday, Goodman said.
The boy attends the local school system, which covered the cost of therapy to supplement his skills until he attended school full time in May. The boy's parents then agreed to hire Mischenko on their own.
The boy's parents, who also have an older son, said the autistic boy was treated and released from a local hospital.
"Our heart was broken when we learned he was autistic, and whatever was left was shredded when we saw that tape," his mother said.
1 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:15:37 AM by RepubMommy
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To: Incorrigible; cupcakes; Brent in TN; Coleus
This breaks my heart, really. My almost 3 year old was diagnosed as austitic at 18 months, but she had had such miraculous progress that her diagnosis was changed to a mild expressive language disorder in which I am confident she will outgrow this as well. Having said that, we have worked with therapists in this manner and you trust these young women in your home, they become like family to you. Before any uneducated posters start with the usual, "well where were the parents when this was going on?" The type of therapy consists on one on one teaching, very much like a school setting and the parents should not be present in the room to avoid any distractions. Many parents do such as this family apparently did and set up a mini classroom in the basement. When my daughter was doing this therapy, she and her therapists were up in her bedroom with the door always opened and her chair was facing opposite the door, so I did peek in from time to time.
Incorrigible, I don't have the autism ping list.
2 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:22:50 AM by RepubMommy
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To: RepubMommy
Also, please note the therapist's father is claiming she does not harm children after she already admitted to the abuse and it was caught on tape. Sorry, sir but your daughter is nothing less then a monster.
3 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:24:55 AM by RepubMommy
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To: RepubMommy
Never leave young children alone with anyone if you can help it. These satanic predators choose occupations where they can abuse the young.
4 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:25:32 AM by HarmonyChurchGoer
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To: RepubMommy
An example of true evil and her daddy won't believe videotaped evidence - sounds like a Kerry supporter to me.
5 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:31:01 AM by austingirl
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To: Diana; douglas1; alnick
autism ping
6 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:31:18 AM by RepubMommy
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To: austingirl
An example of true evil and her daddy won't believe videotaped evidence - sounds like a Kerry supporter to me.
What's worse, is some lawyer is going to willingly defend her. Maybe she can call Breck girl....
7 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:32:19 AM by RepubMommy
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To: StayAt HomeMother
ping
8 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:41:27 AM by RepubMommy
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To: austingirl
...sounds like a Kerry supporter to me. Of course. The only silver-lining in this black, ugly, dastardly cloud is that with her being in jail, that's one less vote for Kerry this November.
9 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:48:38 AM by no dems (Hey, Hey JFK; How many lies have you told today?)
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I'll never understand what could make someone hurt a child. It makes me sick that her maximum sentence is only ten years. At least she'll be branded as a sex offender and will never be allowed to work with or around children. Let's just hope the b*tch can never have children of her own.
10 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:49:11 AM by demkicker
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And that is in part why this young woman became the monster she is.
11 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:01:47 PM by TopQuark
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What's worse, is some lawyer is going to willingly defend her.
You know as well as I do that that's the way it should be.
We give our government great power when it comes to taking money from us, enforcing laws, carting people off to the pokey, etc. By allowing her, even encouraging her, to find counsel who will vigorously defend her against the charges, in the end, when we lock her up and take away her God-given rights we can rest a little easier that we have not done a bad thing.
Also, these shysters help keep the government (the entity with all the power) on its toes. As it whould be.
12 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:06:02 PM by krb
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Oops...as it "should" be, not whould be...
13 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:06:26 PM by krb
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Seeeeeething rage...
Autistic children are so vulnerable. I worry every time I send my son off to school: is he safe on the bus? in the lunchroom? in the rest room?
There are too many EVIL people in the world, and special needs children especially cannot defend themselves.
In moments of rage like this I think: Give me a two hour session with a child abuser and I'd teach him/her what it feels like to be completely defenseless. I'll calm down now...
14 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:11:15 PM by Choose Ye This Day (Kerry sees two Americas. America sees two John Kerrys. It's mutual.)
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What's worse, is some lawyer is going to willingly defend her.
You know as well as I do that that's the way it should be.
Why should some scuzzy lawyer willingly WANT to represent a woman who was caught torturing a child on tape and then admitting to it? A court appointed attorney, should be sufficient. My point is that some jerk who past the bar exam and could care less about this child or the family will willingly represent her and that individual, at the very least, has some serious character issues, to put it mildly.
15 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:49:12 PM by RepubMommy
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To: RepubMommy; afraidfortherepublic; dead; seowulf; Severa; USA21; alnick; FormerLurker; ...
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
My 6 year old son just got through with his speech and ABA therapy this morning. Though I'm occasionally in my basement office when they are here, typically I'm not because I'm too much of a distraction especially if I'm on the computer.
We have come to trust the therapists like family; it's not really a choice. Yes, he occasionally howls his displeasure at being put through his discrete trial paces but the progress he makes it certainly worthwhile.
That said, I never saw any of the problems that this article relates but I will say that video taping the therapist actually encourages better sessions. Many of the therapists have asked me for copies of his videos for their portfolios (alas, so I can loose them to higher paying more steady work at a school).
It takes a very special person to work with Autistic kids.
16 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 1:04:23 PM by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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So you would prefer it that we force the accused to have a known crappy attorney (who may be a better person)?
What happens when she appeals her conviction and gets let go because you forced her to have poor counsel?
17 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:13:14 PM by krb
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Hey - if ya ever get a shot at someone like this, let us all know and we'll be glad to help you teach him/her a lesson..........what a total waste of oxygen this young woman is.....
18 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:39:15 PM by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (The PROUD Mommy of an Alpha Phi pledge!!!)
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That's really bad. Those people are in the same level with terrorists.
19 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:42:39 PM by Ptarmigan
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This is awful. I know all to well that autistic children can test your limits. The older mine gets though, the more I realize how desperately he wants to communicate. You have to pause because they can not interject their intentions like other children can and they often don't have empathy so they do not understand how it makes you feel when they dump a bag of sugar on the floor.
An example this weekend is my autsie(4 1/2) got into the baby formula. After I ran him off and told him he was naughty, I noticed that he had the container out too that I mix the formula in--it was evident he was trying to help me, especially considering the day before he watched me make the formula. He also grabbed my hand when I was upset and I could tell he wanted to tell me something so bad--probably that he was trying to help.
This breaks my heart. THis typs of abuse is something I worry about for my own son.
20 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:48:15 PM by cupcakes
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How do you all get these services? Do you pay for them privately? We can not afford anything additional for my son and he has hope to improve, but is only getting preschool now. I want to help him and feel we are missing on valuable time, but we, financially, can not bear the burden of any additional therapy--not even through our insurance because it is 80/20(we are still paying the psych bill off from his initial diagnosis a YEAR ago)
21 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:51:30 PM by cupcakes
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So you would prefer it that we force the accused to have a known crappy attorney (who may be a better person
No, I am just questioning the character of the type of person that would actually WANT to represent her. Surely some defense lawyers must have consciences if we are talking about child abuse.
22 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:52:27 PM by RepubMommy
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In Maryland we have the autism waiver. With it children get medicaid, their education is funded and at home services. My 13 year old son has the waiver. I tried the at home services but dropped the idea when the first specialist quit and I was never informed.
I considered trying another agency but they all want the children for after school care and I have worked my butt off to keep this child at home with his siblings. The efforts of my husband and I have paid off.
I never thought he would come this far. He can stay at home alone for as long as needed and gets mad when I call to check up on him.
When he was younger and had bad experiences with a teacher (one time) or special ed bus driver (one time) he would get physcial until I realized the problem. In both instances when removed from the wrong people I get my boy back.
Sorry for the ramble!!
23 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:03:14 PM by Mfkmmof4
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How do you all get these services? Do you pay for them privately? We can not afford anything additional for my son and he has hope to improve, but is only getting preschool now. I want to help him and feel we are missing on valuable time, but we, financially, can not bear the burden of any additional therapy--not even through our insurance because it is 80/20(we are still paying the psych bill off from his initial diagnosis a YEAR ago)
The max we had Caitlin involved in was 8 hours of EI and we did have to pay a nominal account to the state because we fell in a certain tax bracket. We also had private speech and OT covered through our insurance. NJ, has alot of services available but many people either sue their school district or pay out of pocket for intense ABA. We didn't feel that Caitlin needed it and thus didn't pursue such a program. She is phasing out of EI right now, turning three in October. She was deemed ineligible for services by our school district this past summer and we agreed with the assessment. She is starting typical preschool next week, something one year ago, we never thought she would do. She will still attend speech for a while but we are one of the lucky ones and my heart will always be with autistic families. I have heard horror stories of people losing their homes because of the financial burden of much needed services. What kind of program is your son in now? Yes, 80/20 is nothing when therapy is ongoing.
24 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:03:39 PM by RepubMommy
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Christine Mischenko, a 23-year-old Middletown behavior therapist
How much experience is a 23-year-old going to have? A behavior therapist at 23? Straight out of college? I don't think so! But thank goodness the parents had sense enough to install a video camera. I hope they put Mischenko away for a long time.
25 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:09:42 PM by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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Most behavior therapists are straight out of college. In NJ, you need to have a masters which she probably had.
The burnout rate is very high so having therapists with years of experience is rare indeed.
26 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:14:26 PM by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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That's right...
27 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:52:45 PM by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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80/20 and a 30 dollar copay--forgot to mention that so you are talking about 50-60 bucks a visit anyway--He would probably need at least two visits a week and we can't pull 100-120 a week right now--hopefully in a couple of years when hubby is done with his masters, but right now--nope.
To answer your questions he is in something called learning steps preschool. Mostly it is children with challenges like autism, sometimes just speech delays and there is usually one or two normal peer models--only one this year since Ry's class is only 6 children this time. Children are only eligible if they have a bonified disability--either SEVERE speech delays or autism. His teacher was horrible last year--did not contact us and didn't want to be there. Didn't hurt him, but she wasn't into it--his bus driver was a jewel!
He has both a new bus driver and a new teacher--didn't like the way the driver SOUNDED when I talke dto her on the phone, but we'll see how it goes--my daughter is in school all day now so I can always drive him to and from if need be. The teacher is new so I think she should be pretty enthusiastic for this first year--in to change the world type of thing. I just hope she's realistic about the behavior of some of these children. Mine is ok, but he can be a bear at times too.
28 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 5:19:40 PM by cupcakes
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Hideous. I am blessed that all of the teachers and therapists who have worked with my almost 7-year old grandson have not only been caring professionals, but angels. Some people just have evil in their hearts, sadly.
29 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:24:40 PM by truthkeeper (Yeah, I have a 1998 signup date. So?)
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Most behavior therapists are straight out of college. In NJ, you need to have a masters which she probably had. The burnout rate is very high so having therapists with years of experience is rare indeed.
Yep, my main therapist is the ripe old age of 26. I plan on showing her the article next week. I would never dream she would do this to my daughter, but I am sure the other family felt the same.
30 posted on Sunday, September 05, 2004 6:13:35 PM by RepubMommy
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He may be a candidate for sign language.... just a thought :)
31 posted on Monday, September 06, 2004 6:58:37 PM by Mfkmmof4
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Holy Shit! I am a rutgers university student- and Christine Mischenko was my roomate a few years back. My girlfriend told me about the article in the paper and I really really didnt believe it until reading this. I always thought she was a complete nut and I really cant believe anyone gave her a job in the first place. this is a perfect example of why I will never hire a stranger to babysit my own child when I eventually have one. My girl and I caught her and all our old roomates doing heroin back then and she had a string of bad relationships with men--thats the only thing that makes sense as to why she did this. In my opinion-she was a spoiled little rich girl but I necer thought she was capable of this. What a godamn freak! I hope she gets max sentance and she will def get beaten and raped in jail---Holy shit! what a freakin nut!
32 posted on Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:26:25 PM by boogat1
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I am a Rutgers student too and I was such good friends with her for about a year but she definitely had some serious control issues and that's why I ended up stopping that friendship--she was weird...but I never would have imagined that something like this could even go through her mind when she looked at a helpless child...I heard she had gotten into dope at the end of college but that is no excuse--there has got to be something chemically wrong with her to do that...we took so many classes on psych together--I am surprised we never knew she was a wacko.
Ricardo Villalobos - Therapist, White Collar Child Abuser, Abuse and Trauma enabler for little children,Child Abuse Fabricator, big time liar.
1908 T Street, NW, Suite A
Washington , DC , 20009
Phone: 2022972825
email:Therapist@ricardovillalobos.info
Woodburn Mental Health Clinic, Annandale, Virginia
Kolmac Clinic, Silver Spring, Maryland
Whitman-Walker Clinic, Arlington, Virginia
The Women's Center, Vienna, Virginia
Argus House for Adolescent Boys, Arlington, Virginia
Will County Dept. of Mental Health, Addictions Counseling Center, Joliet, Illinois
Meet Mr.Ricardo Villalobos: http://www.ricardovillalobos.info/
+Several people have questioned Mr. Ricardo Villalobos and his credibility as to his intentions as a therapist.
+In 2008, Judge Charles Maxfield of the Fairfax Circuit Court issued an court order preventing Ricardo Villalobos from having any further contact with two young children he was providing therapy on a bi-weekly basis for over a year while claiming that the children were depressed and confused due to sexual and physical abuse by their father that he had diagnosed.
+In 2007 Judge Leslie Alden of Fairfax Circuit found Ricardo Villalobos's expert testimony lacking any credibility.
+Mr. Villalobos came to court to testify as a expert witness on child abuse - when asked if he had brought his credentials/resume/curricum vita with him. His answer was No, I did not think it was needed in court. (During his testimony, it was learned that, he had never testified as a expert witness before and hence did not know he should have brought his resume with him to court.
+Ricardo Villalobos was conspiring with a convicted felon Lawyer Robert Machen ( Who spent a year in a federal prison) and CPS worker Shannon Traore aka Shannon Tyler...( who was later fired from Fairfax County Child Protective Services).
see:Fairfax County CPS SocialWorker accused of Fabricating Child Abuse allegations.
Mental Health Therapist charged with child sexual Abuse
A former mental health center therapist has been charged with drug and sex activities involving teenage boys under her care..see link above
Psychologist charged with assault, child abuse at a Silver Spring Clinic in Washington
Christine Mischenko, a 23-year-old Middletown behavior therapist working with the boy since January 2003, is charged with kicking and punching the boy in the head, shaking him by the ears, lifting him off the floor by his hair and squeezing and pulling the boy's genitals, Morris County Prosecutor Michael Rubbinaccio said.
The parents watched the tape Wednesday night, after Mischenko went home. They immediately called police.
Mischenko was arrested at 4 a.m. Thursday at her home. She lives with her parents, who were out of town at the time.
Mischenko was charged with second-degree sexual assault, child endangerment and third-degree aggravated assault. She remains in the county jail in lieu of $100,000 bail and faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence, Rubbinaccio said.
Rubbinaccio said the videotape showed more than two hours of disturbing violence. The boy barely talks, weaving together a couple of words at a time and using sign language to communicate. "She is sadistic and cruel," he said of Mischenko.
The boy's father agreed. "It is a nightmare. I never thought that someone we trusted and let into our home would do something like this," the 41-year-old father said. "When we watched that tape Wednesday my wife cried, saying, 'How can she do that to our baby?' I got so disgusted."
But the woman's father, George Mischenko, said his daughter would never hurt a child. "She is a good person. She doesn't abuse kids. It's unfair what they are saying about her," George Mischenko said.
Christine Mischenko, however, admitted to the charges, plus spraying the victim in the face with an unknown liquid in a hypodermic needle, according to Long Hill police Detective Sgt. Sean Brown's arrest affidavit. She admitted to the abuse not only on Wednesday, but for the past two weeks, the affidavit states.
The boy's father and mother said that two weeks ago they noticed a rash on their son's hands and purple bruises on his earlobes. When the therapist showed up at the house, the boy would hug his mother, not wanting to go to the basement, the father said. The parents asked Mischenko about the rash and bruises, but didn't get an explanation, they said.
The father bought a $300 wireless video surveillance camera with a lens the size of a pinhead. He placed it on a bookshelf in the basement and, on Wednesday, recorded the session. The boy's mother was home at the time. Though the tape shows the boy screaming, he occasionally did that, so that didn't alarm the boy's mother, Rubbinaccio said.
Mischenko was employed by Neptune-based New Horizons in Autism, a nonprofit agency that offers residential, vocational, family support and behavior therapy programs. It has contracts with some 20 school districts, charging $65 an hour for services.
Her boss, executive director Michele Goodman, said, "I'm appalled at her. My concern is for that child."
Mischenko, who did not need certification to do the job, has worked with other autistic children and was never accused of abusing them, Goodman said. She was being groomed for a new position, and was only working with the Long Hill boy twice a week for two hours. She was fired yesterday, Goodman said.
The boy attends the local school system, which covered the cost of therapy to supplement his skills until he attended school full time in May. The boy's parents then agreed to hire Mischenko on their own.
The boy's parents, who also have an older son, said the autistic boy was treated and released from a local hospital.
"Our heart was broken when we learned he was autistic, and whatever was left was shredded when we saw that tape," his mother said.
1 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:15:37 AM by RepubMommy
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This breaks my heart, really. My almost 3 year old was diagnosed as austitic at 18 months, but she had had such miraculous progress that her diagnosis was changed to a mild expressive language disorder in which I am confident she will outgrow this as well. Having said that, we have worked with therapists in this manner and you trust these young women in your home, they become like family to you. Before any uneducated posters start with the usual, "well where were the parents when this was going on?" The type of therapy consists on one on one teaching, very much like a school setting and the parents should not be present in the room to avoid any distractions. Many parents do such as this family apparently did and set up a mini classroom in the basement. When my daughter was doing this therapy, she and her therapists were up in her bedroom with the door always opened and her chair was facing opposite the door, so I did peek in from time to time.
Incorrigible, I don't have the autism ping list.
2 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:22:50 AM by RepubMommy
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Also, please note the therapist's father is claiming she does not harm children after she already admitted to the abuse and it was caught on tape. Sorry, sir but your daughter is nothing less then a monster.
3 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:24:55 AM by RepubMommy
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Never leave young children alone with anyone if you can help it. These satanic predators choose occupations where they can abuse the young.
4 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:25:32 AM by HarmonyChurchGoer
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An example of true evil and her daddy won't believe videotaped evidence - sounds like a Kerry supporter to me.
5 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:31:01 AM by austingirl
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autism ping
6 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:31:18 AM by RepubMommy
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An example of true evil and her daddy won't believe videotaped evidence - sounds like a Kerry supporter to me.
What's worse, is some lawyer is going to willingly defend her. Maybe she can call Breck girl....
7 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:32:19 AM by RepubMommy
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ping
8 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:41:27 AM by RepubMommy
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...sounds like a Kerry supporter to me. Of course. The only silver-lining in this black, ugly, dastardly cloud is that with her being in jail, that's one less vote for Kerry this November.
9 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:48:38 AM by no dems (Hey, Hey JFK; How many lies have you told today?)
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I'll never understand what could make someone hurt a child. It makes me sick that her maximum sentence is only ten years. At least she'll be branded as a sex offender and will never be allowed to work with or around children. Let's just hope the b*tch can never have children of her own.
10 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 11:49:11 AM by demkicker
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And that is in part why this young woman became the monster she is.
11 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:01:47 PM by TopQuark
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What's worse, is some lawyer is going to willingly defend her.
You know as well as I do that that's the way it should be.
We give our government great power when it comes to taking money from us, enforcing laws, carting people off to the pokey, etc. By allowing her, even encouraging her, to find counsel who will vigorously defend her against the charges, in the end, when we lock her up and take away her God-given rights we can rest a little easier that we have not done a bad thing.
Also, these shysters help keep the government (the entity with all the power) on its toes. As it whould be.
12 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:06:02 PM by krb
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Oops...as it "should" be, not whould be...
13 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:06:26 PM by krb
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Seeeeeething rage...
Autistic children are so vulnerable. I worry every time I send my son off to school: is he safe on the bus? in the lunchroom? in the rest room?
There are too many EVIL people in the world, and special needs children especially cannot defend themselves.
In moments of rage like this I think: Give me a two hour session with a child abuser and I'd teach him/her what it feels like to be completely defenseless. I'll calm down now...
14 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:11:15 PM by Choose Ye This Day (Kerry sees two Americas. America sees two John Kerrys. It's mutual.)
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What's worse, is some lawyer is going to willingly defend her.
You know as well as I do that that's the way it should be.
Why should some scuzzy lawyer willingly WANT to represent a woman who was caught torturing a child on tape and then admitting to it? A court appointed attorney, should be sufficient. My point is that some jerk who past the bar exam and could care less about this child or the family will willingly represent her and that individual, at the very least, has some serious character issues, to put it mildly.
15 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:49:12 PM by RepubMommy
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Terrible, terrible, terrible.
My 6 year old son just got through with his speech and ABA therapy this morning. Though I'm occasionally in my basement office when they are here, typically I'm not because I'm too much of a distraction especially if I'm on the computer.
We have come to trust the therapists like family; it's not really a choice. Yes, he occasionally howls his displeasure at being put through his discrete trial paces but the progress he makes it certainly worthwhile.
That said, I never saw any of the problems that this article relates but I will say that video taping the therapist actually encourages better sessions. Many of the therapists have asked me for copies of his videos for their portfolios (alas, so I can loose them to higher paying more steady work at a school).
It takes a very special person to work with Autistic kids.
16 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 1:04:23 PM by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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So you would prefer it that we force the accused to have a known crappy attorney (who may be a better person)?
What happens when she appeals her conviction and gets let go because you forced her to have poor counsel?
17 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:13:14 PM by krb
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Hey - if ya ever get a shot at someone like this, let us all know and we'll be glad to help you teach him/her a lesson..........what a total waste of oxygen this young woman is.....
18 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:39:15 PM by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (The PROUD Mommy of an Alpha Phi pledge!!!)
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That's really bad. Those people are in the same level with terrorists.
19 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:42:39 PM by Ptarmigan
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This is awful. I know all to well that autistic children can test your limits. The older mine gets though, the more I realize how desperately he wants to communicate. You have to pause because they can not interject their intentions like other children can and they often don't have empathy so they do not understand how it makes you feel when they dump a bag of sugar on the floor.
An example this weekend is my autsie(4 1/2) got into the baby formula. After I ran him off and told him he was naughty, I noticed that he had the container out too that I mix the formula in--it was evident he was trying to help me, especially considering the day before he watched me make the formula. He also grabbed my hand when I was upset and I could tell he wanted to tell me something so bad--probably that he was trying to help.
This breaks my heart. THis typs of abuse is something I worry about for my own son.
20 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:48:15 PM by cupcakes
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How do you all get these services? Do you pay for them privately? We can not afford anything additional for my son and he has hope to improve, but is only getting preschool now. I want to help him and feel we are missing on valuable time, but we, financially, can not bear the burden of any additional therapy--not even through our insurance because it is 80/20(we are still paying the psych bill off from his initial diagnosis a YEAR ago)
21 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:51:30 PM by cupcakes
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So you would prefer it that we force the accused to have a known crappy attorney (who may be a better person
No, I am just questioning the character of the type of person that would actually WANT to represent her. Surely some defense lawyers must have consciences if we are talking about child abuse.
22 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 2:52:27 PM by RepubMommy
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In Maryland we have the autism waiver. With it children get medicaid, their education is funded and at home services. My 13 year old son has the waiver. I tried the at home services but dropped the idea when the first specialist quit and I was never informed.
I considered trying another agency but they all want the children for after school care and I have worked my butt off to keep this child at home with his siblings. The efforts of my husband and I have paid off.
I never thought he would come this far. He can stay at home alone for as long as needed and gets mad when I call to check up on him.
When he was younger and had bad experiences with a teacher (one time) or special ed bus driver (one time) he would get physcial until I realized the problem. In both instances when removed from the wrong people I get my boy back.
Sorry for the ramble!!
23 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:03:14 PM by Mfkmmof4
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How do you all get these services? Do you pay for them privately? We can not afford anything additional for my son and he has hope to improve, but is only getting preschool now. I want to help him and feel we are missing on valuable time, but we, financially, can not bear the burden of any additional therapy--not even through our insurance because it is 80/20(we are still paying the psych bill off from his initial diagnosis a YEAR ago)
The max we had Caitlin involved in was 8 hours of EI and we did have to pay a nominal account to the state because we fell in a certain tax bracket. We also had private speech and OT covered through our insurance. NJ, has alot of services available but many people either sue their school district or pay out of pocket for intense ABA. We didn't feel that Caitlin needed it and thus didn't pursue such a program. She is phasing out of EI right now, turning three in October. She was deemed ineligible for services by our school district this past summer and we agreed with the assessment. She is starting typical preschool next week, something one year ago, we never thought she would do. She will still attend speech for a while but we are one of the lucky ones and my heart will always be with autistic families. I have heard horror stories of people losing their homes because of the financial burden of much needed services. What kind of program is your son in now? Yes, 80/20 is nothing when therapy is ongoing.
24 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:03:39 PM by RepubMommy
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Christine Mischenko, a 23-year-old Middletown behavior therapist
How much experience is a 23-year-old going to have? A behavior therapist at 23? Straight out of college? I don't think so! But thank goodness the parents had sense enough to install a video camera. I hope they put Mischenko away for a long time.
25 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:09:42 PM by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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Most behavior therapists are straight out of college. In NJ, you need to have a masters which she probably had.
The burnout rate is very high so having therapists with years of experience is rare indeed.
26 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:14:26 PM by Incorrigible (immanentizing the eschaton)
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That's right...
27 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 3:52:45 PM by ApesForEvolution (DemocRATS are communists and want to destroy America only to replace it with the USSA)
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80/20 and a 30 dollar copay--forgot to mention that so you are talking about 50-60 bucks a visit anyway--He would probably need at least two visits a week and we can't pull 100-120 a week right now--hopefully in a couple of years when hubby is done with his masters, but right now--nope.
To answer your questions he is in something called learning steps preschool. Mostly it is children with challenges like autism, sometimes just speech delays and there is usually one or two normal peer models--only one this year since Ry's class is only 6 children this time. Children are only eligible if they have a bonified disability--either SEVERE speech delays or autism. His teacher was horrible last year--did not contact us and didn't want to be there. Didn't hurt him, but she wasn't into it--his bus driver was a jewel!
He has both a new bus driver and a new teacher--didn't like the way the driver SOUNDED when I talke dto her on the phone, but we'll see how it goes--my daughter is in school all day now so I can always drive him to and from if need be. The teacher is new so I think she should be pretty enthusiastic for this first year--in to change the world type of thing. I just hope she's realistic about the behavior of some of these children. Mine is ok, but he can be a bear at times too.
28 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 5:19:40 PM by cupcakes
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Hideous. I am blessed that all of the teachers and therapists who have worked with my almost 7-year old grandson have not only been caring professionals, but angels. Some people just have evil in their hearts, sadly.
29 posted on Saturday, September 04, 2004 6:24:40 PM by truthkeeper (Yeah, I have a 1998 signup date. So?)
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Most behavior therapists are straight out of college. In NJ, you need to have a masters which she probably had. The burnout rate is very high so having therapists with years of experience is rare indeed.
Yep, my main therapist is the ripe old age of 26. I plan on showing her the article next week. I would never dream she would do this to my daughter, but I am sure the other family felt the same.
30 posted on Sunday, September 05, 2004 6:13:35 PM by RepubMommy
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He may be a candidate for sign language.... just a thought :)
31 posted on Monday, September 06, 2004 6:58:37 PM by Mfkmmof4
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Holy Shit! I am a rutgers university student- and Christine Mischenko was my roomate a few years back. My girlfriend told me about the article in the paper and I really really didnt believe it until reading this. I always thought she was a complete nut and I really cant believe anyone gave her a job in the first place. this is a perfect example of why I will never hire a stranger to babysit my own child when I eventually have one. My girl and I caught her and all our old roomates doing heroin back then and she had a string of bad relationships with men--thats the only thing that makes sense as to why she did this. In my opinion-she was a spoiled little rich girl but I necer thought she was capable of this. What a godamn freak! I hope she gets max sentance and she will def get beaten and raped in jail---Holy shit! what a freakin nut!
32 posted on Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:26:25 PM by boogat1
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To: boogat1
I am a Rutgers student too and I was such good friends with her for about a year but she definitely had some serious control issues and that's why I ended up stopping that friendship--she was weird...but I never would have imagined that something like this could even go through her mind when she looked at a helpless child...I heard she had gotten into dope at the end of college but that is no excuse--there has got to be something chemically wrong with her to do that...we took so many classes on psych together--I am surprised we never knew she was a wacko.
Ricardo Villalobos - Therapist, White Collar Child Abuser, Abuse and Trauma enabler for little children,Child Abuse Fabricator, big time liar.
1908 T Street, NW, Suite A
Washington , DC , 20009
Phone: 2022972825
email:Therapist@ricardovillalobos.info
Woodburn Mental Health Clinic, Annandale, Virginia
Kolmac Clinic, Silver Spring, Maryland
Whitman-Walker Clinic, Arlington, Virginia
The Women's Center, Vienna, Virginia
Argus House for Adolescent Boys, Arlington, Virginia
Will County Dept. of Mental Health, Addictions Counseling Center, Joliet, Illinois
Meet Mr.Ricardo Villalobos: http://www.ricardovillalobos.info/
+Several people have questioned Mr. Ricardo Villalobos and his credibility as to his intentions as a therapist.
+In 2008, Judge Charles Maxfield of the Fairfax Circuit Court issued an court order preventing Ricardo Villalobos from having any further contact with two young children he was providing therapy on a bi-weekly basis for over a year while claiming that the children were depressed and confused due to sexual and physical abuse by their father that he had diagnosed.
+In 2007 Judge Leslie Alden of Fairfax Circuit found Ricardo Villalobos's expert testimony lacking any credibility.
+Mr. Villalobos came to court to testify as a expert witness on child abuse - when asked if he had brought his credentials/resume/curricum vita with him. His answer was No, I did not think it was needed in court. (During his testimony, it was learned that, he had never testified as a expert witness before and hence did not know he should have brought his resume with him to court.
+Ricardo Villalobos was conspiring with a convicted felon Lawyer Robert Machen ( Who spent a year in a federal prison) and CPS worker Shannon Traore aka Shannon Tyler...( who was later fired from Fairfax County Child Protective Services).
see:Fairfax County CPS SocialWorker accused of Fabricating Child Abuse allegations.
Mental Health Therapist charged with child sexual Abuse
A former mental health center therapist has been charged with drug and sex activities involving teenage boys under her care..see link above
Psychologist charged with assault, child abuse at a Silver Spring Clinic in Washington
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Bellevue therapist charged with child molestation
King County prosecutors have charged a Bellevue therapist, who moonlighted as a driver's education instructor on Mercer Island, with two counts of first-degree child molestation.
Charging documents say Mark Douglas Satterlund, 50, groped an 11-year-old boy at his home office.
The boy's mother told police that Satterlund, whom she had been using as a massage therapist for over five years, offered to teach her home-schooled son how to build a fountain using river rocks. She arranged to drop off her son and pick him up later in the day.
Satterlund told the boy during his visit that they should get comfortable, and he striped down to boxer briefs and a t-shirt, according to charging papers. The boy remained fully clothed.
Charging papers say Satterlund put his hand on the boy's genitals while the child was drilling holes in river rocks.
The 11-year-old told police that Satterlund had touched his genitals in the past while his mother was in a separate room getting ready for appointments. He also said the man rubbed his own genitals while massaging the mother.
A judge granted police the authority to record a phone conversation between the Satterlund and the boy. The masseur denied during that conversation that he had molested the 11-year-old, according to a probable cause document.
Bellevue Police have investigated Satterlund twice in the past for involvement with minor males – one a 15-year-old driver's education student and the other a family friend. No charges resulted from those cases.
Satterlund's former boyfriend contacted police to report the alleged incident with a family friend. The minor did not disclose any abuse during an interview with investigators.
Satterlund took a polygraph for the other case. The test showed "no deception" when a questioner asked whether his alleged touching of the 15-year-old was for sexual purposes.
Police arrested Satterlund June 3 while he was at home with his wife. He was held on $150,000 bail and released four days later after posting bond.
Satterlund resigned his position as an instructor at SWERVE Driver Training on June 5. His massage practitioner license from the State Health Department remained active through Wednesday.
"We have an investigation under way," said health department spokesman Gordon MacCracken.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/sound/article/Bellevue-massage-therapist-charged-with-child-891188.php#ixzz1OyeOikGs
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/sound/article/Bellevue-massage-therapist-charged-with-child-891188.php#ixzz1OyeJQ8XD
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/sound/article/Bellevue-massage-therapist-charged-with-child-891188.php#ixzz1Oye8rawG
Charging documents say Mark Douglas Satterlund, 50, groped an 11-year-old boy at his home office.
The boy's mother told police that Satterlund, whom she had been using as a massage therapist for over five years, offered to teach her home-schooled son how to build a fountain using river rocks. She arranged to drop off her son and pick him up later in the day.
Satterlund told the boy during his visit that they should get comfortable, and he striped down to boxer briefs and a t-shirt, according to charging papers. The boy remained fully clothed.
Charging papers say Satterlund put his hand on the boy's genitals while the child was drilling holes in river rocks.
The 11-year-old told police that Satterlund had touched his genitals in the past while his mother was in a separate room getting ready for appointments. He also said the man rubbed his own genitals while massaging the mother.
A judge granted police the authority to record a phone conversation between the Satterlund and the boy. The masseur denied during that conversation that he had molested the 11-year-old, according to a probable cause document.
Bellevue Police have investigated Satterlund twice in the past for involvement with minor males – one a 15-year-old driver's education student and the other a family friend. No charges resulted from those cases.
Satterlund's former boyfriend contacted police to report the alleged incident with a family friend. The minor did not disclose any abuse during an interview with investigators.
Satterlund took a polygraph for the other case. The test showed "no deception" when a questioner asked whether his alleged touching of the 15-year-old was for sexual purposes.
Police arrested Satterlund June 3 while he was at home with his wife. He was held on $150,000 bail and released four days later after posting bond.
Satterlund resigned his position as an instructor at SWERVE Driver Training on June 5. His massage practitioner license from the State Health Department remained active through Wednesday.
"We have an investigation under way," said health department spokesman Gordon MacCracken.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/sound/article/Bellevue-massage-therapist-charged-with-child-891188.php#ixzz1OyeOikGs
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/sound/article/Bellevue-massage-therapist-charged-with-child-891188.php#ixzz1OyeJQ8XD
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/sound/article/Bellevue-massage-therapist-charged-with-child-891188.php#ixzz1Oye8rawG
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