Saturday, June 04, 2005

Rape Therapist Awaits Arrest for Not Revealing Client's Records

Colorado Springs therapist Jennifer Bier freely spent her Sunday morning at church.
But she knew the sanctuary found within the walls of Rocky Mountain Calvary Church couldn't keep U.S. authorities armed with an arrest warrant away forever.
Late last week a military judge ordered Bier arrested for failing to disclose confidential files pertaining to her sessions with a former Air Force cadet who alleges she was raped by a cadet commander in 2000.
..."I think it's just appalling that this order places me and, to a larger extent, other therapists in the position of having to choose between serving our clients ethically or protecting ourselves," Bier said.
Faced with such a choice, Bier said, she doesn't believe adequate therapy can be carried out.

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