Roger Forney: The Face of Some ASH Staff Personified. 

As to the fact that one of Arizona's most criminally predatory citizens was hired to work at The Arizona State Hospital in gross spite of the associated fact that he had been previously prosecuted and convicted in Maricopa County, AZ, on no less that six (6) counts of sexual exploitation of children. Convicted in the context less than one year before being granted a position as a full time security guard at ASH, hired as such by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, referred thereafter to the Arizona Department of Health/Behavioral Health Services. 

http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/docket/CriminalCourtCases/caseInfo.asp?caseNumber=CR2012-155190

See those eyes? Sense the harm posed by this man's demeanor? Perceive the level of danger mired in the man's inner psychological sanctum? The very look in this man's eyes is only one more graphic example of what the patient experience at The Arizona State Hospital might be like, should any patient be subject to staff retaliation, or other like resentment expressed by ASH's goon squad, be that represented by physically abusive ASH technicians, emotionally harmful abuse imparted by the majority of senior ASH nursing staff, or the potentially lethal psychological abuse associated with the incompetence/malfeasance of ASH's psychiatrists. Far less like a hospital in this context, than a setting designed to aggravate/worsen any ASH client-patient's state of mind. A setting that reflects one of America's ugliest institutional practices, as it applies to public mental hospitals. I attest to this as stated. It is that bad.

On a related note: The one time I physically interacted with ASH attorney Joel Rudd, when he appeared unannounced at one of my highly private in-patient treatment and discharge planning meetings, he was unwilling to so much look me in the eye when I asked what the hell he was doing there. As it turned out, he was there on the basis of a blunder caused by my assigned ASH social worker, Megan Michner, and once he realized her blatant mistake in the context, he walked out of there without so much as acknowledging my presence at this meeting, which as per law, was convened on my behalf. Point being, many/most ASH staff ignore the fact that all/any ASH patients are deserving of basic respect- no matter what the circumstances- and particularly in meetings such as this. Likewise, I attest to the fact that Rudd commonly strolls to and from his office on the ASH grounds, without EVER saying hello or communicating with patients, maintaining an air of self-centered superiority that arguably reflects humankind's most disturbing behavioral characteristic. As bottom feeding lawyers go- and I have known a few, to say the least- Rudd is as bad as it gets, and to know that he is entrusted to oversee the legal affairs of a public health care facility (such as ASH, the patients of whom are all Arizona citizens, and to whom Rudd and any other state employee is 100% obligated to serve) makes me sick to my stomach, in effect.

In no uncertain terms, in terms of the majority of staff whom I was forced to interact with, this is the face of ASH personified. Goddamn thugs, medical miscreants, and outright bottom feeding bullies in all senses; nothing that anyone of reasonable conscience/intelligence would expect to encounter in a hospital setting, no matter what the circumstances. Need it be said that the patient community at ASH is represented by one of the most highly vulnerable and and at-risk population groups in the state? A setting that serves to most sickening potential in terms of persons such as this individual, who do seek out direct access/opportunities in the context of possible victims of their twisted desires? In my experience, ASH is rife with staff members who overtly exhibit grossly unethical misbehavior as a matter of standard practice, with highly unlawful cooperation of senior clinical staff and administrative representatives, who turn a blind eye to the starkly inhumane conditions and care practices at ASH no matter how irrefutable the evidence may be. Current ASH chief executive officer, Donna Noreiga, for example, plainly engaged in complicity, negligence, and outright deception on a number of occasions wherein I was subject to physical assault, emotional, and psychological  abuse, imparted on me by ASH staff on day in day out basis. Noriega's misbehavior in this context is far from unique. I can prove it.

The full procedural criminal record as it relates to the fact that Roger Allan Forney was granted employment at The Arizona State Hospital in spite of the fact that he is known to be a predatory sexual child abuser is available on the above public website. As the record proves, he initially pled guilty to and was convicted of no less than SIX (6) counts of sexual abuse of a minor in October, 2010. In early 2011 (less than 6 months after said conviction), Forney began working at ASH as a full time security guard, and I attest to the fact that during that period of time,  this man subjected me to direct threats to my safety, including warning me that if I did not cease in filing grievance reports about the rampant presence of staff misconduct at ASH, he and his associate security staff would "make my life living hell." He acted, as such, as a thug, directed in no uncertain terms by ASH administrators to try and intimidate me into silence in this context. This is only one example of the means by which I was subjected to such illegal mistreatment, and I further attest to the fact that these patterns of intimidation and systematic retaliation occur at ASH as a matter of standard practice.

Roger Forney, Case #13-3553, 10/21/2010
6 COUNTS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR
      Pled Guilty as Charged.

Roger Forney, Case #CR2012-155190-001, 10/08/2012 
10 COUNTS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR.
       Pled Guilty as Charged.

Roger Forney, 01/13/2014; Order of confinement/sentence of 
imprisonment.

Roger Forney, 01/15/2014; Sentence: Imprisonment (15 years), 
and probation (5 years, including registering as a sexual offender).

It need be noted that Donna Noriega was the Chief Operating Officer at ASH when this man was hired, a position that includes the responsibility of overseeing the Hospital's full body of staff; and since that time, as with norm, she has been promoted her current position as ASH's chief executive officer (she replaced none other than Cory Nelson, as such, after his promotion to deputy director of the entire ADHS/BHS public health system). Also, I will state at this time that not all security staff who I interacted with during my thirteen (13) long months as an ASH patient were involved in this specific area of criminal misconduct. There were (and I hope are still) at least a few very well intentioned and reasonably competent security guards at ASH who I came to trust, and in fact, do today consider friends, in effect. They know who they are, and they know who I am, as well. I have in fact heard from more than one of these individuals since beginning the publication of this blog, and I wish them well in all senses. Such persons make a world of positive difference to the experiences of ASH patients. But as with all other areas of staff at ASH, these individuals are a minority, and are never in positions of seniority. The fact is, as per my very real experiences at ASH, all senior ranking staff (from security, to nurses, social worker staff, and indeed each and every staff psychiatrist) are willfully engaged in creating an atmosphere of threat and fear that extends to the topic of job security, should any well intentioned staff choose to openly speak out about the grossly substandard health care practices at ASH. Such patterns are somewhat common and well known to all bureaucracies, and especially so- arguably- state agencies, including any state's department of motor vehicles, for example, as well as public health care agencies in all forms. But in those places where the clients of these bureaucracies are highly vulnerable on the basis of age or disability, there is an irrefutable presence of grossly unqualified staff, some of whom I contend possess very disturbing forms of depraved character, as illustrated by this particular individual. State mental hospital are "snake pits" for graphic patient abuse and associated administrative ineptitude, (SEE: Citizens Commission on Human Rights: State Hospitals are Still Snakepits of Patient Abuse, Betrayal of the Public. By Steve Wagner 2010, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Los Angeles, CA) and as the record shows, ASH is operating 100%  consistently with this fact, offering virtual safe haven for men and women who seek out such places on the basis of little to no oversight or accountability, people who are predatory and arguably sociopathic, and will engage in physically/emotionally/psychologically abusing their patient-clients at every chance they can. I have seen this with my own eyes, have experienced the worst affects of it, and attest to the fact that it is as common as cold tile flooring and pale white fluorescent lighting there within the walls and fence lines of ASH.

IN CLOSING: Now this man is in prison, I will say again that I do sincerely hope he somehow survives the worst consequences of his depraved character, and emerges on the other side of his current torment as better human being. Somehow. No human being deserves anything less than humane treatment, no matter how disturbing their actions. As to the ones still getting away with furthering the radically out of control situation at The Arizona State Hospital, I will also say this: Rest  assured, I will wish you such support once you are subject to your just due. But until that time, I intend to take no prisoners. Rat Bastards Beware.

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