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I am so toweringly angry, speaking as a person who would not be alive today if not for good psychiatric care, at the grossly-unethical, criminal actions of Dr Richard Yensen and Dr Donna Dryer against a vulnerable patient in their care. There's a CBC News article about the case (short version, the bastards are unlikely to do time).
Athough the RCMP arrested them, the Crown declined to prosecute Dryer or Yensen because they didn't think they'd win. The screaming subtext of which is the lawyers probably thought "crazy people make shitty witnesses, and juries doubt them." Speaking as a certified "crazy people" myself, I think they should've fucking well at least TRIED to put Richard Yensen and Donna Dryer behind bars.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-mdma-therapy-videos-1.6400256
The link above contains upsetting images from the recordings which were made of Yensen and Dryer abusing their patient and getting PAID for it. Oh yes, they were "helping" a PTSD victim in a clinical trial. As part of the clinical trial safety protocols, all sessions were recorded. However, Yensen and Dryer committed their crimes in 2015, and MAPS (the organization in charge of running the clinical trial) never actually watched any of the videos until 6 years later. 2 years after the victim had already filed a police complaint.
If she hadn't had the bravery to file that complaint, and then gotten the press involved when the justice system didn’t help her, those videos documenting her abuse would have probably sat there unwatched forever. MAPS knew they had a massive ethical violation by Yensen and Dryer in 2019, and fired them in 2019. But they STILL didn’t watch any of the tapes of the treatment, not until November 2021.
MAPS, newsflash: recording all the therapy doesn't count as a safety protocol or due diligence if nobody at MAPS ever watches the recordings of the therapists they hired to help this poor woman. I hope she has a lawyer, a vicious, smart pitbull of a lawyer, and sues MAPS for millions in damages for their negligence.
I wish I hadn't read t he article, because now I can't un-see the images. So I will violate the CBC's copyright and reproduce all of the text of the article below. I just hope like hell I did the cut function right ( Read more... )
Athough the RCMP arrested them, the Crown declined to prosecute Dryer or Yensen because they didn't think they'd win. The screaming subtext of which is the lawyers probably thought "crazy people make shitty witnesses, and juries doubt them." Speaking as a certified "crazy people" myself, I think they should've fucking well at least TRIED to put Richard Yensen and Donna Dryer behind bars.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-mdma-therapy-videos-1.6400256
The link above contains upsetting images from the recordings which were made of Yensen and Dryer abusing their patient and getting PAID for it. Oh yes, they were "helping" a PTSD victim in a clinical trial. As part of the clinical trial safety protocols, all sessions were recorded. However, Yensen and Dryer committed their crimes in 2015, and MAPS (the organization in charge of running the clinical trial) never actually watched any of the videos until 6 years later. 2 years after the victim had already filed a police complaint.
If she hadn't had the bravery to file that complaint, and then gotten the press involved when the justice system didn’t help her, those videos documenting her abuse would have probably sat there unwatched forever. MAPS knew they had a massive ethical violation by Yensen and Dryer in 2019, and fired them in 2019. But they STILL didn’t watch any of the tapes of the treatment, not until November 2021.
MAPS, newsflash: recording all the therapy doesn't count as a safety protocol or due diligence if nobody at MAPS ever watches the recordings of the therapists they hired to help this poor woman. I hope she has a lawyer, a vicious, smart pitbull of a lawyer, and sues MAPS for millions in damages for their negligence.
I wish I hadn't read t he article, because now I can't un-see the images. So I will violate the CBC's copyright and reproduce all of the text of the article below. I just hope like hell I did the cut function right ( Read more... )
