If you haven't already, please check out  part one. I am about to make some serious accusations against the entire state apparatus of Pennsylvania, and some of the supporting evidence is found in that part...

 

In 1986 Jim Singer was a practicing psychologist in Dubois, Pennsylvania. He maintained his own private practice and at the same time at the Maple Avenue Dubois Regional Medical Center. He treated a patient that would change his life forever and expose him to corruption at all levels of the Pennsylvania state apparatus as well as possibly the national level.

This patient was 25 years old and he had a history of being abused. He had recently moved out of his parent's home and was living with his aunt. He also had a history of alcoholism. Furthermore, he thoght might even have a sexually transmitted disease. After consulting with the patient, Singer suggested he consult with a phyiscian for a full physical examination. At Dubois, the patient was treated by Dr. Al Varacallo, a family physician. Upon examining him, Dr. Varacallo admitted to Dubois Regional Medical Certin, he and Singer decided that the proper course of action moving forward was family counseling with Singer leading the counseling and Dr. Varacallo sitting in for observation.

Once Singer had a chance to interact with the entire family, he observed a family full of dysfunction. For instance, the daughter was dressed rather provocatively especially for a fifteen year old. He noticed that as soon as the father entered the room, the two siblings went from being from being outgoing to quiet. The father admitted that not only did he have a tendency to drink too much alcohol, but would get violent when overly inebriated.

Finally, during one of the breaks, the daughter approached Singer and insisted on having a private session with Singer. Singer explained that this was improper and that if she wanted to have a private session she would need to get her school's guidance counselor to give her written permission. That happened on Thursday evening and when the family came back for the next session on Friday, the daughter had two permission slips signed by two separate guidance counselors.

Furthermore, during one of the breaks, a nurse on the floor, who also happened to be a neighbor of the family, revealed to Singer that the daughter had bags packed and was planning on running away. Furthermore, the nurse said that the daughter also drank a lot and had a tendency to date older men.

At this point, Singer suspected that the daughter was being abused. He decided to confront her brother, the 25 year old that was originally his patient. Singer suspected abuse but the brother was resistant. He refused to answer and demanded to be left alone. Finally, after being grilled for a while, the brother demanded to be left alone and verbally fired Singer as his psychologist.

At this point, Singer was stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. He still suspected abuse. He was a mandated reporter and must report abuse even if he only suspected it, however since he was fired, he couldn't seek to treat anyone in the family. He consulted with Dr. Varacallo. They both decided that the proper course of action was for Dr. Varacallo to approach the family, and the daughter specifically, and see if she wanted to move forward with treatment.

Not only did the daughter agree, but later in the day on Saturday, her aunt, the father's sister, called Singer and offered to come in with her niece and her daughter. They all came in the next day Saturday. After meeting separately with Dr. Varacallo, the daughter, her aunt, and her cousin met together with Singer. Singer probed whether she was being abused, and she admitted that she was being abused by her father.

At this point, there was no longer any options for Singer. Medical ethics and procedures demand that he call the proper authorities in this case. That's exactly what he did and the Department of Children Services of Pennsylvania were contacted. In the meantime, Singer left the hospital to attend to another patient. The case worker, John Bennesse, didn't appear to be terribly interested in the case according to witnesses. It was a Saturday and he appeared to want to be elsewhere. That said, after interviewing several medical professionals, he removed the child and placed her in protective custody of her aunt.

There is standard procedure that is supposed to be followed moving forward in any case of abuse. Of central importance, DCFS is supposed to immediately get the child legal representation. This way all contact between the accused abuser and the victim can be handled through the third party, the attorney. This never happened, and soon the parents were showing up at her school and threatening the child. The father began threatening Singer and his daughter.

It got so bad that the daughter began contacting Singer and begging for help. She indicated that she was suicidal. Upon realizing that no attorney was ever hired for her, Singer went to legal aid and found her representation. Only months later DCFS finally got the child their own representation.

Months later, the child contacts Singer again and sends him a letter of thanks for saving her life. Singer then contacted the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare to complain about the unprofessional behavior of DCFS. Initially, DPW sent in an investigator and the investigator agreed with Singer's concerns. Months went by and nothing was done as a result of the investigation. Singer sent DPW a letter complaining that action was being stalled. DPW responded and now they said that they found nothing wrong and that it was all a "misunderstanding".

In March of 1987, the daughter called Singer again in tears. She said that she was sorry that she had gotten him into so much trouble and that her father was about to get even with him.

Singer didn't know it yet, but he was about to be on the receiving end of a well orchestrated sham peer review. Later that same day, he was called in to examine a patient that was hysterical. What Singer didn't know was that this patient was a neighbor of the accuser and likely was a plant. The patient was speaking in gibberish. He refused to take his medication and claimed that since a psychologist was called in then it must all be "in my head". The patient was entirely uncooperative, however Singer didn't make much of this bizarre encounter until months later.

Over the next several months, Singer began losing patients. What he didn't know was that someone was poisoning the proverbial waters about his reputation in the relatively small town of Dubois. In early 1988, Singer was informed by the Pennsylvania Board of Psychology (PBOA) that he was being formally investigated. There was seven patients in all, including the peculiar one I mentioned and the abuser himself, that filed complaints. Now, Singer first became a psychologist in 1973. Prior to these complaints, he'd never had any complaints. It should have been a red flag to any legitimate licensing board that a doctor usually doesn't go nearly fifteen years with no complaints and suddenly has multiple complaints all at once. Of course, what Singer didn't know was that he wasn't dealing with a legitimate board but rather a corrupt one.

The whole entire affair was nothing more than a sham. There was evidence that not only were witnesses bribed in order to make up testimony but that this was done at the behest of DCFS itself. Furthermore, through the course of the trial it was even revealed that DCFS actually revealed Singer as the source of the complaint of child abuse. Of course, this is a total aversion to any proper procedures. Anyone that reports child abuse is always supposed to have their anonymity maintained. Singer was initially charged with 58 counts, and was put through a legal loop that wound up nearly bankrupting him. He finally needed to reach out to the National Child Abuse Center for legal help.

He was finally found guilty of billing errors. He was put on probation. In 1992, while the case was under appeal the board removed his license because they claimed he didn't pay the fine the board punished him. (Singer told me that he didn't pay the fine upon the advice of his lawyer)

He has never recovered his license in Pennsylvania. In fact, only about a month ago, he had license restored in the state of West Virginia. No one was ever seriously investigated, let alone punished, for looking the other way or incompetently protecting the child in this case. Mark Spotz is currently on death row following a killing spree. He found himself in the Pennsylvania DCFS system at about the same time as this case was starting. Not only did Spotz have a history of being abused, but serious questions remain about just how much DCFS protected him against his abuser when he found himself in their care. His attorneys have been claiming that had the trial jurors known of the extent and nature of abuse suffered as a youngster, as well as his previous diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance abuse, they might have spared his life. The alleged abuse included mandatory sex acts as a 10-year-old, introduction to drugs, beatings, confinements and situations that, according to a psychologist, ranked “at the very bottom of bad.” How many kids were under the care of Pennsylvania DCFS and wound up being neglected like Spotz and the child in this case?

In Part three, I will discuss all the "powerful" politicians that Singer reached out to for help. They include both Bob Casey Jr. and Sr., Tom Ridge, Arlen Spector, and Rick Santorum. Their behavior in the subsequent fifteen years after Singer's license was removed is nearly as deplorable as that of the Psychology Board and DCFS.

In the meantime, check out other similar stories...stories like a doctor in South Carolina that was targeted for reporting on a serial killer nurse, a doctor in Texas targeted by Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a nurse that was targeted after he reported on illegal drug testing at his hospital, the Texas Medical Board's systematic targeting of doctors, and the tragic case of obscene corruption at Atlanta's Grady Hospital. Finally, you can check out a similar case in which a doctor in Rhode Island was also targeted after she reported on suspected child abuse.

That's a rather peculiar statement to make however it also happens to be the legal term for a doctor that doesn't provide medical records to the next doctor.



Of course, Dr. Mills had done nothing wrong, however on September 29th, She received a formal complain from the Rhode Island Medical Board, lead by Bruce Mcintyre. The complaint stated that multiple complaints regarding the transfer of medical records on patients, she was to be evaluated. Of course, at this point Dr. Mills knew of no patients that complained let alone multiple.



She was forced to hire an attorney, Seth Bowerman, on October 15th. The attorney had told her that BC had signed the complaint and that it had a litany of charges including, but not exclusively, sending out the paperwork too late. This was startling and ironic because this particular patient had been coming to Dr. Mills for about four years and never complained about anything.



Dr. Mills was about to be the victim of sham peer review. At the end of February this sham had what is known as an investigative committee hearing. This is like an arbitration or even a trial in which testimony is taken and evidence is presented. While it is still quite unclear what it was that Dr. Mills did, the board decided that she needed to be evaluated.



Normal procedure in such cases would have the board forward a list of psychiatrists and have Dr. Mills choose one. In this case, she was only given one name, Dr. Jeff Hunt. Of course, Dr. Hunt was a child psychologist and so that made no sense.



Then the board made no effort to send out anymore names until Dr. Mills, herself, complained. This time they sent her a list of four doctors and Dr. Hunt was one of them.



On September 22nd, Dr. Mcintyre suspends Dr. Mills' ability to see patients until she was evaluated. Even though she had never been given a list of psychologists, she was suspended until she saw one. On September 24th, she received the list, it was only four, and Dr. Hunt was one. The first psychologist, Iris Shuey, MD, even refused to see Dr. Mills. Finally, Dr. Mills was scheduled to see Dr. Lea Cullen. She would never keep that appointment.



In the interim Dr. Mills began studying the charges and medical records of BC in order to prepare a defense. Besides the complaints of BC there was complaint from another patient that I will call JB. In this case, the father was ironically enough a child abuse investigator. Medical history on JB was scant. When JB first came to see Dr. Mills, her mother told her that her records had been lost because they had moved around in the Navy previously. Furthermore, Dr. Mills only saw one out of four children. The mother had mentioned that in 1990, JB had been diagnosed with apnea. In preparing for her defense, she discovered information about the family that unfortunately likely lead to the removal of Dr. Mills' license.

The main break came when Dr. Mills contacted Bridgeport Hospital, the hospital where JB had been diagnosed with apnea. She was told that the records hadn't been lost at all and in fact they were still available on microfiche. From this discovery, Dr. Mills unraveled a mystery in which she discovered that each of the four kids had been diagnosed no less than 27 times with peculiar injuries including fractures, bone breaks, and other injuries that strongly suggested child abuse. More than once, multiple siblings would have fractures and breaks within days of each other.

In cases of suspected child abuse, a medical professional is obligated to report even if there is only suspicion of abuse. This is known as mandated reporter. That's exactly what she did, and she reported her findings to the Rhode Island Department of Children and Youth Services (DCYF). Rather than having her suspicions investigated, it is likely that as a result she was retaliated against.

That's because within weeks of reporting on the abuse, her license was officially suspended. She has never regained her license and continues to this day to fight the entire Rhode Island court system which has over and over affirmed the decision of the Rhode Island Medical Board. This includes Superior Courts within Rhode Island, and even the Federal Court of Rhode Island. In the interim she has reached out to most Rhode Island politicians including Jack Reed, Lincoln Chafee, Sheldon Whitehouse, among a plethora of other less well known local and state politician. NONE has been willing or able to help her. Sheldon Whitehouse, when he was Attorney General, actually represented Bruce Mcintyre and the Rhode Island Medical Board in a civil case AGAINST Dr. Mills. It is unclear what was the final disposition of the case of child abuse, though I suspect that nothing much was done with it. In the meantime, Dr. Mills languishes having to do odd jobs to make a living while it is going on nearly ten years since she was able to practice medicine. None of the perpetrators of this sham peer review have faced any disciplinary action. Furthermore, you will find scant if any media attention to this case. In other words, the entire state of Rhode Island has perpetrated a fraud and corrupt sham in which Dr. Mills civil rights were systematically violated and no one in the media seems to care in the slightest.

Dr. Mills has created a web site where her case is discussed in great detail. What you will find on that site is documentation supporting each and every charge made here.

Here is part three and the conclusion of this amazing tale.