This is one of several partial revisions of a prior article, published in its original form on December 08, 2014.
INTRODUCTION SEPTEMBER 2018
This is about one man working in what is largely a man's world; the bureaucracy of the Arizona Department of Health Services construct (ADHS), that is, and most every other form of modern systems of government and administration. I herein call again on Dr. Cara Christ to stand alone and away from the men who surround her- above and below- and in a manner consistent with her most sincere sense of conscience, that SHE take direct action in support of the care needs and rights of the ASH patient community. Refuse for once to allow these men to run your show.
This will be tough. We all know this. But it is your show, it is your direct obligation beyond anyone else's, and trust me when I say that these Rat Bastards are not going to come to your aid when it is truly needed.
Nor will I, beyond these writings. Unless- perhaps- if you were to ask, for as always, I welcome direct communication. For I am not- do not have to be- an enemy, in fact.
So stand up and be a woman, already.
DISCUSSION SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
This will be tough. We all know this. But it is your show, it is your direct obligation beyond anyone else's, and trust me when I say that these Rat Bastards are not going to come to your aid when it is truly needed.
Nor will I, beyond these writings. Unless- perhaps- if you were to ask, for as always, I welcome direct communication. For I am not- do not have to be- an enemy, in fact.
So stand up and be a woman, already.
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| Dr. Cara Christ 2015- September 2018 Director. Arizona Department of Health Services. |
Given the highly intensive attention directed towards men in power who as a matter of cultural routine sexually abuse women, personified by not only by the at-last(!) conviction of comedian Bill Cosby or the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump's latest pick for the US Supreme Court, Brett Michael Kavanaugh (while Trump too is an alleged sexual maniac, as per numerous testimony provided by women over the years), we are again compelled to direct focus in our own right on long time chief medical officer at Arizona State Hospital (ASH), Dr. Steven Dingle.
I would ask that ADHS Director Dr. Cara Christ consider the testimony provided by a number of women in recent months specific to the long lasting harm and impacts imposed upon women victimized by sexual harassment and abuse by men. Such women have not only put their given careers and reputation at stake, but in some cases, have risked the very lives of themselves and their families in good faith attempts to see that the issue of sexual abuse meaningfully addressed.
This itself is a very critical health issue affecting women, children, and even men who in any way have been exposed to the depraved misbehavior of such men, who for whatever reason have no understanding of how deeply sexual abuse of others damages the emotional and psychological well being of victims. The period of how long ago such misbehavior may have occurred, in fact, is irrelative to the fact that these abusers are at minimum lacking empathy for others, and are most generally affected by sexual preoccupation and self-regulation problems. While trauma and negative emotions suffered by victims range from shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, personality disruptions, attachment issues, and addiction.
I know that you, as a licensed medical doctor, are fully aware of these factors. I find it very difficult to understand how you, in your position as the most entrusted public health care official in the state of Arizona, would willingly contribute to the historic patterns of denial by which sexual abuse has been present in human culture across the board. And yet here we have it, documented on the official record at this time, your direct defense of known sexual abuser who under your authority has been granted opportunity to care for highly vulnerable adults.
I would ask that ADHS Director Dr. Cara Christ consider the testimony provided by a number of women in recent months specific to the long lasting harm and impacts imposed upon women victimized by sexual harassment and abuse by men. Such women have not only put their given careers and reputation at stake, but in some cases, have risked the very lives of themselves and their families in good faith attempts to see that the issue of sexual abuse meaningfully addressed.
This itself is a very critical health issue affecting women, children, and even men who in any way have been exposed to the depraved misbehavior of such men, who for whatever reason have no understanding of how deeply sexual abuse of others damages the emotional and psychological well being of victims. The period of how long ago such misbehavior may have occurred, in fact, is irrelative to the fact that these abusers are at minimum lacking empathy for others, and are most generally affected by sexual preoccupation and self-regulation problems. While trauma and negative emotions suffered by victims range from shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, personality disruptions, attachment issues, and addiction.
I know that you, as a licensed medical doctor, are fully aware of these factors. I find it very difficult to understand how you, in your position as the most entrusted public health care official in the state of Arizona, would willingly contribute to the historic patterns of denial by which sexual abuse has been present in human culture across the board. And yet here we have it, documented on the official record at this time, your direct defense of known sexual abuser who under your authority has been granted opportunity to care for highly vulnerable adults.
Below is a revised and again published 2014 article exposing the plain fact that Dingle was found guilty of and sanctioned for having sexually women working directly under his authority. As with the vast majority of information shared in this blog publication to date, this is factual and in no uncertain terms a continually ignored reality specific to the depraved character of the one ASH primary physician with more responsibility than any other, outside, that is, of current ASH chief executive officer, Dr. Aaron Bowen.
A related fact of deep concern is that, as recently as fall, 2017, Bowen willfully acted in a manner to diminish Dingle's indisputable recond in context, by aggressively violating the first amendment right of an ASH patient who voiced their own given concern about the issue in formal meeting of the ASH Human Rights Committee (now referred to as the ASH Independent Oversight Committee; IOC). Bowen did state at the time, by blatantly interrupting this patient as they civilly expressed this concern, "I will not allow anyone to call my CMO a sexual predator in public!"
This singular action is on point with more recent evidence to the effect that Bowen has been denying IOC access to incident and accident reports. Such data is not only public record (as is Dingle's record as a sexual abuser of women), but further and as per state law, to be provided to IOC on a monthly basis. Likewise, in the 2017 ASH "Annual Report," (released in December, 2017) Bowen failed to include a near death assault (a stabbing) by one ASH patient on another. Such incidents are of critical form, as such, may represent any range of shortfalls in the operation of ASH, and do pose grave risk to the general safety of the ASH patient community as a whole. By willfully omitting this particular detail, Bowen has arguably furthered such potentially fatal incidents in his own right.
Consistent with the unlawful misconduct of Bowen over the last eight or so months, the record at this time also includes Dr. Cara Christ's willful role in suppressing public record. Christ, of course, is the current director of Arizona's entire public health care system. Specifically, immediately following Bowen's attack on the above mentioned patient's first amendment right, Christ and at least one state employed attorney in her office complicitly sought to strike the patient's expression in the public record. What, may we ask, was the purpose of all involved parties in this matter? Nothing short of the hope that, regardless of direct impact on the ASH patient community, such unlawful misconduct be condoned, in patent defiance of all related law and policy at both the state and federal level.
I almost hate to say it, given its horrific theme, but this is all 100% on point with the willingness of ASH administrators (including Steven Dingle) in May, 2011, to deny the public knowledge of former ASH patient Jesus Rincon Murrieta's presence in greater Phoenix area following his having violently escaped ASH; which did, in fact, directly contribute to the tragic and very preventable death of April Mott in August of that same year. Wherein, even though local Phoenix media was made aware of Murrieta's actual escape only days after it occurred, ASH administrators flagrantly lied when a reporter from the Arizona Republic newspaper inquired about the incident. Allowing Murrieta to run amok in Phoenix for over ten full weeks, at which point, he murdered Ms. Mott in her own apartment.
Back to Dingle himself, then, who was hired by ADHS following have been found guilty of abusing women working under his direct authority, in violation of state and federal law. (See Arizona Board of Medical Examiners investigation #9412 below). This highly questionable employment occurred in a manner on point other such diminishments of the significance of sexual abuse.
The May, 2018, issue of National Geographic, for only one example, includes an article entitled "Rid the Sciences of Harassars," which was written by University of Illinois anthropological professor, Dr. Kathryn Clancy. Dr Clancy has conducted formal research on sexual abuse in the sciences for close to decade, and this article, delves into the plain fact that, despite the emergence of the #METOO movement and other such efforts of address sexual abuse of women over the last few years, male scientists most often avoid the same degree of oversight and accountability that other members of society face when identified in context, including in the professions.
The May, 2018, issue of National Geographic, for only one example, includes an article entitled "Rid the Sciences of Harassars," which was written by University of Illinois anthropological professor, Dr. Kathryn Clancy. Dr Clancy has conducted formal research on sexual abuse in the sciences for close to decade, and this article, delves into the plain fact that, despite the emergence of the #METOO movement and other such efforts of address sexual abuse of women over the last few years, male scientists most often avoid the same degree of oversight and accountability that other members of society face when identified in context, including in the professions.
Medicine is science, and Bowen, Christ and Dingle are all scientists. Any coincidence, then? I think not.
The relation of this fact to current issues about sexual abuse is glaring. Ad yet, here we have it.
But what is most disturbing about Dingle's history, perhaps, is the willingness of Cara Christ to snub the significance of this issue; effectively furthering the issue as it has long stood in American society and as it still stands today. Bad enough, in other words, that males are behind the gist of this matter, without even considering that at least some professional women of authority are basically on board with underlying realities most at stake. To my knowledge at this time, Christ is the sole female directly involved in defending/denying Dingle's known depravity.
If this is how she wants, then so be it. One can only question whether or not Christ in her own experience has ever been subjected to sexual abuse. Or, conversely, whether she has a daughter or daughters of her own. Whatever the case, her attempt to defend Dingle's indisputable status as a sexual abuser of women shocks my basic sense of jurisprudence and conscience. She has directly contributed to a furthering of this issue in American society, and for this, she should be ashamed.
If this is how she wants, then so be it. One can only question whether or not Christ in her own experience has ever been subjected to sexual abuse. Or, conversely, whether she has a daughter or daughters of her own. Whatever the case, her attempt to defend Dingle's indisputable status as a sexual abuser of women shocks my basic sense of jurisprudence and conscience. She has directly contributed to a furthering of this issue in American society, and for this, she should be ashamed.
Shame? Remorse? Sense of duty? Not one of these elements of human character apply to the behavior persons affected by sociopathic tendencies. While I am not in any sort of position to formally determine (diagnose) the psychological status persons historically involved in the corruption at ASH of any other like public mental health care facility, I have every right to suggest that something is deeply fishy going on when we consider the patterns that I have discussed today, and in numerous other articles published herein since April, 2012.
We are talking here about highly educated, highly entrusted members of public society. Persons granted a great degree of responsibility and authority in direct relation to the needs and rights of individuals disabled by serious mental illness; and who may well appear in all other settings to be of reasonable character of ethos, including in terms of family and community. No matter much a lay person I may in relation to medical diagnosis, these baseline characteristics do meet a significant aspect of the profile(s) of sociopaths.
Adding to this baseline, the bare bones fact is that, only when such persons are granted access to overtly secretive settings such as ASH, do they willfully engage in disregarding the standards by which they are licensed and employed. Safe haven in no uncertain terms for persons fully aware that their depravity would never survive in the public milieu, as exemplified by former-since incarcerated ASH security guard, Roger Forney, who even upon being hired by ADHS was already a known sexual abuser of children.
The extent to which they wrongfully utilize such employment is extensive, and includes exploitation of laws that protect patient privacy as one means to get away with willful breaches of of common decency. Misbehavior in its ugliest form, which can and does effectively contaminate the possibility of patient recovery.
Even if such persons lack meaningful awareness of applicable law and policy (which Bowen has exhibited more then once), we must remember that they are healthcare professionals; doctors, who are well educated in relation to healthcare ethics and the most fundamental precepts of civil behavior, and not to mention the Hippocratic Oath in itself.
While the lawyers, the goddamned health department lawyers who do possess reasonable awareness of applicable law and policy, engage in defending this misconduct as a matter of standard practice, as personified by Joel Rudd.
The extent to which they wrongfully utilize such employment is extensive, and includes exploitation of laws that protect patient privacy as one means to get away with willful breaches of of common decency. Misbehavior in its ugliest form, which can and does effectively contaminate the possibility of patient recovery.
Even if such persons lack meaningful awareness of applicable law and policy (which Bowen has exhibited more then once), we must remember that they are healthcare professionals; doctors, who are well educated in relation to healthcare ethics and the most fundamental precepts of civil behavior, and not to mention the Hippocratic Oath in itself.
While the lawyers, the goddamned health department lawyers who do possess reasonable awareness of applicable law and policy, engage in defending this misconduct as a matter of standard practice, as personified by Joel Rudd.
This is, has to be sickness of some kind. To the extent that each one of these people has no justification whatsoever to oppose these facets of required conduct; knowingly, willfully, openly and at times so brazenly that I find it vicious, going about repeated exhibitions of patient abuse in all its forms.
It is not enough to have witnessed and experienced actual physical and psychological abuses of ASH patients, as I have. It is not enough to discern the breadth to which such misbehavior reaches in terms of human rights, as I have since familiarizing myself with applicable law and policy. It requires the ability of entrusted state officials and employees to admit their own shortfalls.
But these people, the ones I am identifying today.... They are sick... No less so then persons who cannot control their sexual behavior, be it Cosby, Kavanaugh, Forney, and so on.
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Arizona Board of Medical Examiners Investigation #9412.
Mark R. Speicher, Elaine Hugginin presiding.
The following is a partial reprint of an article originally published on December 08, 2014. In the original, we were unable to bring up the formal hearing report specific to sexual predator Dr. Steven Dingle's being found guilty of sexual abuse and harassment in May, 2997. Thanks to the good folks at ABC Ch 15 (Phoenix), however, we are now able to share that document in full.
"Oh, never mind... I was just being my normal hyper sexual self."
Dr. Steven Dingle.
Wherein, on May 8, 1997, the long running chief medical officer at Arizona State Hospital was found guilty of violating state and federal law. This after having sexually abused no less then four women under his authority at a Phoenix Hospital. When the stove got too hot for this dirt bag in 1995, he resigned his position at a private Phoenix hospital, and holed up like so many other rapscallions (Cory Nelson, Donna Noriega come to mind) in the Arizona Department of Health Services.
As I have clarified more then once in past articles, Dr. Steven Dingle was party to all aspects of wrongdoing and associated substandard conditions at Arizona State Hospital circa 2010-2015. As the chief medical officer, assigned as such to be fully aware of all of ASH's day to day operational features, this is simply the case.
The breadth of this wrongdoing is expansive. But I am willing to point to the covered up escape of ASH patient Jesus Rincon Murietta in 2011 as a glaring example of what some of these people have gotten away with; wherein Dingle and his associate medical and administrative staff blatantly failed to meet the psychiatric medical standard of Duty to Warn the public. By allowing this fact to be shrouded in the corrupted minds of ASH's medical staff, their behavior did as a matter of plain fact contribute to the subsequent death April Mott. Given his status as chief medical officer, wherein he has full authority over all formal medical operational decisions, no one such staff person has as much responsibility as Dingle does in this context.
Similarly, oh so much so, we only have to look at the fact that ASH employed a known- as in convicted prior to his employment at ASH- child sexual predator, one Roger James Forney (2010-2013- he is now in prison); as well as more recent data about sexual assaults and other like issues that ABC Channel 15 has produced on the public light. I could not make this up if I had to. It is still... beyond me, these people.
Even today, Dingle is avoiding reasonable accountability. Because his immediate supervisor, Aaron Bowen, for whatever reason doesn't feel that any of these facts matter when it comes to the welfare of ASH's patient community. Which is precisely what Dingle and his kind desire, seeking places such as the Arizona State Hospital to engage in their nefarious misbehavior, where the vast majority of what goes on is kept secret.
......As I heard it said by staff on far more then one occasion.
Dingle and company love this shit. It gives them the opportunity to inflict, inflict, inflict. He is an abuser, and this pattern of conduct is 100% consistent with known abuser behavior across the board.
The breadth of this wrongdoing is expansive. But I am willing to point to the covered up escape of ASH patient Jesus Rincon Murietta in 2011 as a glaring example of what some of these people have gotten away with; wherein Dingle and his associate medical and administrative staff blatantly failed to meet the psychiatric medical standard of Duty to Warn the public. By allowing this fact to be shrouded in the corrupted minds of ASH's medical staff, their behavior did as a matter of plain fact contribute to the subsequent death April Mott. Given his status as chief medical officer, wherein he has full authority over all formal medical operational decisions, no one such staff person has as much responsibility as Dingle does in this context.
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| Forney's 2013 mug shot. |
Similarly, oh so much so, we only have to look at the fact that ASH employed a known- as in convicted prior to his employment at ASH- child sexual predator, one Roger James Forney (2010-2013- he is now in prison); as well as more recent data about sexual assaults and other like issues that ABC Channel 15 has produced on the public light. I could not make this up if I had to. It is still... beyond me, these people.
Even today, Dingle is avoiding reasonable accountability. Because his immediate supervisor, Aaron Bowen, for whatever reason doesn't feel that any of these facts matter when it comes to the welfare of ASH's patient community. Which is precisely what Dingle and his kind desire, seeking places such as the Arizona State Hospital to engage in their nefarious misbehavior, where the vast majority of what goes on is kept secret.
"What happens at ASH stays at ASH"
......As I heard it said by staff on far more then one occasion.
Dingle and company love this shit. It gives them the opportunity to inflict, inflict, inflict. He is an abuser, and this pattern of conduct is 100% consistent with known abuser behavior across the board.
I would ask that ASH chief executive officer Dr. Aaron Bowen and Arizona Department of Health director Dr. Cara Christ take into account the fact that in this day in age, the presence of abusers such as Dingle are being taken to account, in government, media, and on the sordid story goes. Knowing all we do about Dingle's abject lack of character, what grants these highly entrusted state employees the right to turn a blind eye to the risks associated with this Rat Bastard?
Do the right thing. While you can.
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IN CLOSING SEPTEMBER 29, 2018.
I have made clear my sincere wish that Cara Christ take a stand as a woman in her own right. I have made clear how that can be made so, though it is hardly an easy thing. That I do not have to be the enemy.
Instead, then, if it helps... Please, all of you, in unison, cooperatively, as a team, whatever.... Just do the right thing for a change.
Remember where you come from, what you have been taught. Turn a cold shoulder to the failures of bureaucracy when it comes to the needs of your clientele. Look to your own, your children, your family, your community for uncolored guidance. Read your bible, review your manuals of conduct, do whatever it takes.
Just try to make doing the right thing a matter of standard practice. At all times, in all circumstances.
Just try it. You might like it.
I'll say up front, that I am hardly perfect myself. That I too have run afoul of the law. That I too have failed more than once to do the right thing. But I seek to do better at all times, day in, day out. Can you, too?
It this really too much to ask? I mean, really! You are all reasonably intelligent. You must possess some ability to make good choices. You must have some sense of civility in relation to others. Where in this emerging scandal are you actually going to knock off your shit? How much more evidence will pile up before you are awakened from your slothlike mentality?
And where will you go when it all hits the fan?
It is a matter of choice, all of it, and the choice is yours today.
As it always has been.
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| Paolo Jack Reed. |
Instead, then, if it helps... Please, all of you, in unison, cooperatively, as a team, whatever.... Just do the right thing for a change.
Remember where you come from, what you have been taught. Turn a cold shoulder to the failures of bureaucracy when it comes to the needs of your clientele. Look to your own, your children, your family, your community for uncolored guidance. Read your bible, review your manuals of conduct, do whatever it takes.
Just try to make doing the right thing a matter of standard practice. At all times, in all circumstances.
Just try it. You might like it.
I'll say up front, that I am hardly perfect myself. That I too have run afoul of the law. That I too have failed more than once to do the right thing. But I seek to do better at all times, day in, day out. Can you, too?
It this really too much to ask? I mean, really! You are all reasonably intelligent. You must possess some ability to make good choices. You must have some sense of civility in relation to others. Where in this emerging scandal are you actually going to knock off your shit? How much more evidence will pile up before you are awakened from your slothlike mentality?
And where will you go when it all hits the fan?
It is a matter of choice, all of it, and the choice is yours today.
As it always has been.
paoloreed@gmail.com
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